Valerie French is a 1923 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), a sequel to Anthony Lyveden.

[2] Anthony Lyveden loses his memory, and confuses the two women who love him, Valerie French and André Strongi’th’arm.

After completing Anthony Lyveden, the chance reading of an article in The Spectator convinced Mercer that his writing needed more gravitas, and he significantly altered his style for this volume to incorporate the systematic use of the colon.

[3] His biographer AJ Smithers commented, "Whether or not this was an improvement on his old style must be a matter of opinion.

[5] Smithers, writing in 1982, was not enthusiastic either, commenting that the seams show too clearly where the individual episodes have been padded out to the required length by moralising.