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Updated: October 2, 2026
It was followed by 'Cruelle Enigme ; Un Crime d'Amour ; Andre Cornelis and Mensonges ; Le Disciple ; La Terre promise; Cosmopolis , crowned by the Academy; Drames de Famille ; Monique ; his romances are 'Une Idylle tragique ; La Duchesse Bleue ; Le Fantome ; and L'Etape . 'Le Disciple' and 'Cosmopolis' are certainly notable books. The latter marks the cardinal point in Bourget's fiction.
In the Rue Verte I meet only a street lamp, and then a mouse-like little girl who emerges from the shadows and enters them again without seeing me, so intent is she on pressing to her heart, like a doll, the big loaf they have sent her to buy. Here is the Rue de l'Etape, my street.
It is not a novel, it is not a treatise, it is not poetry, it is not romance. It is the delineation of a mood; and though it was called, with some reason, sceptical, its moral, if it has a moral, is that scepticism leads to misconduct. That unpleasant and unverified hypothesis, soon rejected by Froude himself, has been revived by M. Bourget in Le Disciple, and L'Etape.