The Red Lily (French: Le Lys rouge) is a novel by Anatole France, published in 1894.

Madame Therese Martin-Bellème was married by her father to an elderly count, a government minister.

Dechartre refuses to understand that she is not a light woman, or believe her avowals that she has loved him alone, and in a pathetic last interview she realises that her happiness is at an end.

[1] Helen Rex Keller writes, "The pictures of Florence and Paris add charm and the minor characters are of interest as personal sketches of the author himself and his contemporaries."

Miss Bell, the English poet, has been identified with Miss Mary Robinson (later Madame Duclaux); De Chartre has been supposed to represent the passionate side of Anatole France's nature, Paul Vence, the artistic and intellectual side; Schmoll is the Jewish scholar, Oppert.