Desc: Manon Lescaut: Directed by Gabriel Aghion. With Céline Perreau, Samuel Theis, Xavier Gallais, Laurent Stocker. There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who's preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker's daughter. It's love at first sight.