title: The Crimes of Love (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Marquis de Sade
description: <br><strong>David Coward</strong> is Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author of <em>A History of French Literature</em> and the translator of <em>Jacques the Fatalist</em> and <em>The Figaro Trilogy</em>.<br>
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  # Immortals Crowned by the French Academy: The Red Lily, v3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anatole France
  
  
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  CHAPTER XXIII. "ONE IS NEVER KIND WHEN ONE IS IN
  
  
  LOVE"
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV. CHOULETTE'S AMBITION
  
  
  CHAPTER XXV. "WE ARE ROBBING LIFE"
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVI. IN DECHARTRE'S STUDIO
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVII. THE PRIMROSE PATH
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVIII. NEWS OF LE MENIL
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIX. JEALOUSY
  
  
  CHAPTER XXX. A LETTER FROM ROBERT
  
  
  CHAPTER XXXI. AN UNWELCOME APPARITION
  
  
  CHAPTER XXXII. THE RED LILY
  
  
  CHAPTER XXXIII. A WHITE NIGHT
  
  
  CHAPTER XXXIV. "I SEE THE OTHER WITH YOU ALWAYS!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER XXIII. "ONE IS NEVER KIND
  
  
  WHEN ONE IS IN LOVE"
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The next day, in the hidden pavilion of the Via Alfieri, she found
  
  
  him preoccupied. She tried to distract him with ardent gayety, with
  
  
  the sweetness of pressing