The Counterfeiters

VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, February 1973

Copyright 1927, 1951 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Copyright Renewed 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

The Counterfeiters was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1927. Originally published in French as Les Faux-Monnayeurs. Copyright 1925 by Librairie Gallimard, Paris. Journal of “The Counterfeiters” was originally published in French as Journal des Faux-Monnayeurs. Copyright 1927 by Librairie Gallimard, Paris.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Gide, André Paul Guillaume, 1869–1951.
   The counterfeiters.
   Reprint of the 1951 ed.
   1. Gide, André Paul Guillaume, 1869–1951. Le journal des Faux-monnayeurs. English. 1973. II. Title. III. Title: Journal of The Counterfeiters.
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eISBN: 978-0-307-81932-1                 72–8064

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I dedicate this, my first novel,

to ROGER MARTIN DU GARD

in token of profound friendship A.G.

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

      FIRST PART: Paris

       I. The Luxembourg Gardens

      II. The Profitendieus

     III. Bernard and Olivier

     IV. Vincent and the Comte de Passavant

      V. Vincent Meets Passavant at Lady Griffith’s

     VI. Bernard Awakens

    VII. Lilian and Vincent

   VIII. Edouard and Laura

    IX. Edouard and Olivier

     X. The Cloak-Room Ticket

    XI. Edouard’s Journal: George Molinier

   XII. Edouard’s Journal: Laura’s Wedding

  XIII. Edouard’s Journal: First Visit to La Pérouse

   XIV.