Novice is the seventh studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1989 on Barclay Records.

The songwriting is split between Boris Bergman, marking is last collaboration with Bashung, and Jean Fauque who would go on to write his four subsequent albums.

Bashung said about the album that it was a sequel of sort to his experiments on Play blessures.

In 2011, Christophe covered the song for the tribute album Tels Alain Bashung.

[1] Academic Jean Frédéric Hennuy compared the lyrics of "Pyromanes" and "Légère éclaircie" with those of Nick Cave.