THE COUNTERFEITERS * _Other books by_ ANDRÉ GIDE * STRAIT IS THE GATE LAFCADIO’S ADVENTURES DOSTOEVSKY * 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 * I DEDICATE THIS, MY FIRST NOVEL, TO ROGER MARTIN DU GARD IN TOKEN OF PROFOUND FRIENDSHIP A. G. * CONTENTS * 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