The novel opens with an epigram from Byron: "Why did he love her?  Curious fool, be still! / Is huma
The novel opens with an epigram from Byron: "Why did he love her?  Curious fool, be still! / Is human love the fruit of human will?"  The novel ends in New Orleans, with the title character waiting for a boat leaving for Europe, where she will meet her brother in Calais.  The novel begin "Just about six months before my departure for Spain, I first met the Chevalier des Grieux," and had been turned into an opera by Hans Werner Henze, Jules Massenet, and Puccini.  FTP, name the heroine and you've named this novel by Abbe Prevost.
The novel opens with an epigram from Byron: "Why did he love her?  
Manon Lescaut