The Woman and the Puppet (La Femme et le pantin) is an 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs.

During the carnival in Seville, the Frenchman André Stévenol meets and falls under the spell of Concepción 'Conchita' Pérez, a young Andalusian woman.

On each occasion he was made to feel guilty for his jealous thoughts and actions towards her, until he realised finally that he had been her puppet for fourteen months and in an explosion of passion he beat her.

Although the two then started living together, she continued her flirtatious behaviour towards other men and simultaneously became very possessive.

(1908),[2] a collection of Louÿs works translated and/or adapted by G. F. Monkshood (William James Clarke), published by Greening & Co.