Chapter I: Front Matter

THE COUNTERFEITERS

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_Other books

by_

ANDRÉ GIDE

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STRAIT IS THE GATE
LAFCADIO’S ADVENTURES
DOSTOEVSKY

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THE COUNTERFEITERS

(_Les Faux-Monnayeurs_)

_Translated from the French of_

ANDRÉ GIDE

_by Dorothy Bussy_

_New York_ ALFRED · A · KNOPF _Mcmxxvii_

COPYRIGHT 1927 BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1927
SECOND PRINTING OCTOBER, 1927
THIRD PRINTING OCTOBER, 1927
FOURTH PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1927
FIFTH PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1927
SIXTH PRINTING DECEMBER, 1927
SEVENTH PRINTING DECEMBER, 1927

ORIGINAL TITLE
LES FAUX-MONNAYEURS
COPYRIGHT 1925 BY LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD
PARIS

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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I DEDICATE

THIS, MY FIRST NOVEL,

TO

ROGER MARTIN DU GARD

IN TOKEN OF PROFOUND

FRIENDSHIP

A. G.

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CONTENTS

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FIRST PART: PARIS

I. THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS 3

II. THE PROFITENDIEUS 9

III. BERNARD AND OLIVIER 23

IV. VINCENT AND THE COMTE DE
PASSAVANT 32

V. VINCENT MEETS PASSAVANT AT LADY
GRIFFITH’S 41

VI. BERNARD AWAKENS 50

VII. LILIAN AND VINCENT 54

VIII. EDOUARD AND LAURA 60

IX. EDOUARD AND OLIVIER 69

X. THE CLOAK-ROOM TICKET 73

XI. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: GEORGE
MOLINIER 77

XII. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: LAURA’S
WEDDING 86

XIII. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: FIRST VISIT TO
LA PÉROUSE 106

XIV. BERNARD AND LAURA 115

XV. OLIVIER VISITS THE COMTE DE
PASSAVANT 124

XVI. VINCENT AND LILIAN 130

XVII. THE EVENING AT RAMBOUILLET 136

XVIII. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: SECOND VISIT
TO LA PÉROUSE 144

SECOND PART: SAAS-FÉE

I. FROM BERNARD TO OLIVIER 155

II. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: LITTLE BORIS 160

III. EDOUARD EXPLAINS HIS THEORY
TO LA PÉROUSE 167

IV. BERNARD AND LAURA 180

V. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: CONVERSATION
WITH SOPHRONISKA 189

VI. FROM OLIVIER TO BERNARD 195

VII. THE AUTHOR REVIEWS HIS CHARACTERS 202

THIRD PART: PARIS

I. EDOUARD’S JOURNAL: OSCAR
MOLINIER 209