French · Intermediate
Read La Demoiselle aux yeux verts in Frenchwith every sentence explained
English title: The Girl with the Green Eyes
Maurice Leblanc · 1927
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About the book
La Demoiselle aux yeux verts by Maurice Leblanc was first published in 1927. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime, romance and thriller and suspense. It runs to about 64,500 words.
Blue eyes or green? Arsène Lupin chooses, and walks straight into a murder.
On a bright April afternoon in Paris, the dashing Raoul de Limézy, explorer, just back from Tibet, notices two striking young women: a proud Englishwoman with blue eyes, and a laughing girl with jade-green eyes. That night he slips into the Englishwoman's compartment on the train to Monte Carlo, and Miss Bakefield coolly guesses that he is really Arsène Lupin.
Then masked bandits storm the carriage. Miss Bakefield dies before his eyes, begging him to take her papers, and as one of the killers struggles with the conductor, a mask slips: it is the girl with the green eyes. With the vain police commissioner Marescal on the case, Lupin must find out who she really is before the law does.
Maurice Leblanc's The Girl with the Green Eyes inspired Hayao Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro. Romantic, daring and full of surprises, it shows Lupin at his most gallant.
- Author
- Maurice Leblanc
- First published
- 1927
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Mystery and Crime, Romance, Thriller and Suspense
- Length
- About 64,500 words
How it opens
Raoul de Limézy flânait sur les boulevards, allégrement, ainsi qu’un homme heureux qui n’a qu’à regarder pour jouir de la vie, de ses spectacles charmants, et de la gaieté légère qu’offre Paris en certains jours lumineux d’avril. De taille moyenne, il avait une silhouette à la fois mince et puissante. À l’endroit des biceps les manches de son veston se gonflaient, et le torse bombait au-dessus d’une taille qui était fine et souple. La coupe et la nuance de ses vêtements indiquaient l’homme qui attache de l’importance au choix des étoffes.
Reading La Demoiselle aux yeux verts in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday French feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
