Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut.

In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation, while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's taste for luxury.

But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor and asks to be wed with Manon, the Governor's nephew sets his sights on winning Manon's hand.

In despair, Des Grieux challenges the Governor's nephew to a duel and knocks him unconscious.

Manon dies of exposure and exhaustion the following morning ; after burying her, Des Grieux returns to France to become a cleric.

Thomas Pynchon refers to Puccini's Des Grieux a number of times in his early short story " Under the Rose ," found in his Slow Learner collection, as well as in V.

it: Storia del cavaliere Des Grieux e di Manon Lescaut

* Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut ( Puccini )

" Furthermore, in a novel attributed to Oscar Wilde, Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, Des Grieux makes a passing reference to Antinous as he describes how he felt during a musical performance.

As famous interpreters of Des Grieux, Kobbé lists Edmond Clément, Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa and Ferruccio Tagliavini ; Wolff also lists Gaston Micheletti, Adolphe Maréchal, Charles Fontaine and Libero de Luca.

Some biographers have assumed that he suffered some of the misfortunes assigned to his hero Des Grieux.

After serving in the Italian military ( and briefly taking lessons from the Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod ), di Stefano made his operatic debut in 1946 in Reggio Emilia as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon, the role in which he made his La Scala debut the following year.

Unlike the love of the Chevalier Des Grieux for Manon Lescaut ( to which story Dumas himself makes reference at the beginning of The Lady of the Camellias ), Armand's love is for a woman who is ready to sacrifice her riches and her lifestyle for him, but who is thwarted by the arrival of Armand's father.

* Des Grieux in Manon

A translation of Des Lebens Überfluss ( Life's Luxuries, by E. N. Bennett ) appeared in German Short Stories in the Oxford University Press World's Classics series in 1934, but the wit of the original comes over more strongly in The Superfluities of Life.

Kyle comes up with a solution for Larry to take the train and go to live in Des Moines, Iowa, which is supposedly " three years behind " everywhere else.

With this naturally comes an Australian theme ; his deck has cards such as Des Koala, Des Kangaroo and Eucalyptus Mole, all of which reflect his affinity toward such animals.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada production ran from June 11 to November 7, 2009, with Des McAnuff directing and Wayne Cilento as choreographer.

As early as 1904, John Gaynor, a Wisconsin grower, and A. U. Chaney, a fruit broker from Des Moines, Iowa, organized Wisconsin growers into a cooperative called the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company to receive a uniform price from buyers.

In the summer of 1835, the regiment blazed a trail along the Des Moines river and established outposts from present-day Des Moines to Fort Dodge.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

: Des nouvelles d ' Édouard ( 1984 ) ( News from Édouard )

They refrained from excavating until Des Bartlett had photographed the site.

The word " turbine " was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memoir, " Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse ", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

" The Supreme Court also ruled that the provision preventing minors from making political contributions was unconstitutional, relying on Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.

He had backing from some major media magnates: Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, and John Cowles and Gardner Cowles, publishers of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the Des Moines Register, and Look magazine.

Category: People from Des Moines, Iowa

Composers came to Ferrara from many parts of Europe, especially France and Flanders ; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole for a time ( producing the Missa Hercules dux Ferrariæ, which he wrote for him ); Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice ( and died during an outbreak of plague there in 1505 ); and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505.

This new agency devised a plan to construct channels and canals to reverse the flow of the rivers away from Lake Michigan and divert the contaminated water downstream where it could be diluted as it flowed into the Des Plaines and eventually the Mississippi.

Under Ercole ( 1431 – 1505 ), one of the most significant patrons of the arts in late 15th and early 16th century Italy, Ferrara grew into a cultural center, renowned especially for music ; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole, Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice, and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505.

In Des Moines, WA, students can attend Highline Community College, and then continue their education from CWU through the newly-built Higher Education Center.

The passage between the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers was through a short swamp portage which seasonally flooded and it is thought that a channel gradually developed unintentionally from the dragging of the boat bottoms.

The two sisters, Amelia and Muriel ( she went by her middle name from her teens on ), remained with their grandparents in Atchison, while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters in Des Moines.

Upon his release from hospital, two weeks after the heart attack, Morecambe learned that Des O ' Connor had told his audience in Paignton to pray for Morecambe's recovery as he was fighting for his life.

Traditional French Creole is spoken among those families determined to keep the language alive or in regions below New Orleans around St. James and St. John Parishes where German immigres originally settled ( also known as ' the German Coast ', or Les Cote Des Allemandes ) and cultivated the land, keeping the ill-equipped French Colonists from starvation during the Colonial Period and adopting commonly spoken French and Creole French ( arriving with the exiles ) as a language of trade.

In 1841 with training from Nicollet, Frémont mapped portions of the Des Moines River.

They inspired the work of Montaigne Des Cannibales ( Essais, Book 1, Chap. 31 ), and they influenced the creation of the myth of the " noble savage " during the Enlightenment.

Jean Des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family.

A party of braves followed to watch where they landed, but they did not stop until they got below the Des Moines Rapids, where they came ashore and commenced building a fort.

He eventually landed up as an understudy race caller, behind Des Hoysted and John Tapp.

In 1909, when the family was finally reunited in Des Moines, the Earhart children were enrolled in public school for the first time with Amelia Earhart entering the seventh grade at the age of 12 years.

It was named for nearby Windsor Elementary School in Des Moines ; the school was named for early settler Henry Clay Windsor, whose family donated land for the school.

Herbert Armstrong was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 31, 1892, into a Quaker family.

Her request was eventually answered by Tionne Watkins, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who moved to Atlanta with her family at an early age, and Lisa Lopes, a rapper who had just moved to the city from her native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with only a keyboard and US $ 750 ($ today ).

In 2002, Fualaau's family sued the Highline School District and the city of Des Moines, Washington, for emotional suffering, lost wages, and the costs of rearing his two children, claiming the school and the Des Moines Police Department had failed to protect him from Letourneau.

The 1930 census indicates that his family had relocated and was living at the time in Des Moines.

Before 1949, there were five main department stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai: In Hong Kong: Lane Crawford-In 1850 founded by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened in Des Voeux Road Hong Kong ; Wing On-In 1907 Kwok's family returned to Hong Kong from Australia with accumulated savings and founded the Wing On Company ; Sincere-Founded by Ma Ying Piu in 1900 after returning from Australia and partnership with others to form the first Chinese department store in then British Hong Kong.

Inhofe was born in Des Moines, Iowa and moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was a child.

Bobbi has been famously quoted as saying, “ Well, come to our house, and tell me which four I shouldn ’ t have had !” The family continues to attend a Baptist church in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Kenny serves as a deacon.

At age two, his family moved as part of a covered wagon caravan from Iowa to Kansas before relocating to Des Moines, Iowa, five years later.

After two years in Florida, his health improved, and he was returned to his family, who had moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where his father had taken a job teaching.

They arrived in Guam, then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, and finally with the assistance of a Methodist church they relocated to Des Peres, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

Carl Pohlad was born on August 23, 1915, to a poor Slovak family in Des Moines, Iowa.

Watkins ' family moved from Des Moines to Atlanta, Georgia, when she was nine years old.

The family moved to Des Moines, Iowa, before his first birthday.

Around 1995, the family of local businessman Art Wittern proposed the " Village at Oakbrook " to the city of West Des Moines on the site that the Witterns owned at 74th Street ( later renamed Jordan Creek Parkway ) and E. P.

Born in Portland, Oregon, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa with her family as a child.

* February 2, 1975: Vanderbilt University student Sarah Des Prez was murdered near the university, a location close to the Nashville neighborhood of Green Hills, where the Trimble family lived and Marcia Trimble was murdered.

When the family moved to a farm outside Des Moines, Price became head custodian at the Des Moines National Bank, which at the time was a prestigious job for a black man Attending, Oak Park Grammar School, Oak Park High School and Highland Park College for one year, Archie began his engineering education at the State University of Iowa ( The University of Iowa ).

Des Foley was born into a farming family at Kinsealy, County Dublin in 1940.

* In her research of the Garrard family, Anna Russell Des Cognets notes that thirteen years elapsed between the birth of Garrard's older brother Daniel and James Garrard.