Un cœur de père est le chef-d'œuvre de la nature." - Meaning and context.">
A father's heart is nature's finest work.
• Part 2, p. 205; translation p. 117.
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Un cœur de père est le chef-d'œuvre de la nature.

— Antoine François Prévost

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Un cœur de père est le chef-d'œuvre de la nature." in the context of "A father's heart is nature's finest work.
• Part 2, p. 205; translation p. 117." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Source: Wikiquote: "Antoine François Prévost" (Quotes, L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731): French quotations are cited from the 1846 Charpentier edition, English quotations from Angela Scholar (trans.) The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Antoine François Prévost

About Antoine François Prévost

Antoine-François Prévost d'Exiles (April 1 1697 – November 25 1763), also known as the Abbé Prévost, was a French novelist, historian and journalist. His best-known story, L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, has formed the basis of several operas, most notably Puccini's Manon Lescaut.