Puccini was not alone in loving this woman. The public first fell for her as the heroine of the sexy novel The Tale of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. It was the saga of a ...

There are certain sayings so ingrained in the public mind that they don’t need to be finished to be complete. When you hear “live fast,” your brain quickly fills in the rest: “die young.” The saying ...