L'Amour monstre

{{short description|1954 novel by Louis Pauwels}}

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| author = Louis Pauwels

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| country = France

| language = French

| publisher = Éditions du Seuil

| pub_date = 1954

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| pages = 228

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L'Amour monstre ("monstrous love") is a 1954 novel by the French writer Louis Pauwels. It is set in the 16th century and tells the story of a possibly bewitched love affair between a doctor and a young woman sent to a monastery.

The novel was the runner-up for the 1955 Prix Goncourt.{{Cite web|url=http://galerie.parismatch.com/detail.cfm?idpicture=238261621|title=Louis Pauwels, 1978|language=French|publisher=Paris Match|accessdate=2016-04-07|archive-date=2016-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318081007/http://galerie.parismatch.com/detail.cfm?idpicture=238261621|url-status=dead}} Ingmar Bergman was at one point attached to direct a film adaptation, but the project was not realised.{{Cite web|last=Loyrette|first=Henri|authorlink=Henri Loyrette|date=1999-11-10|url=http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/membres/actuel/libres/Loyrette/discours_hommage_pauwels.htm|title=Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Louis Pauwels (1920-1997)|language=French|publisher=Académie des Beaux-Arts|accessdate=2016-04-07|archive-date=2005-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050304133207/http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr/membres/actuel/libres/Loyrette/discours_hommage_pauwels.htm|url-status=dead}}

The book is mentioned in the lyrics of Serge Gainsbourg's 1968 song "Initials B.B." Gainsbourg had been recommended the book by Brigitte Bardot.{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Darran|year=2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnTHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT60|title=Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson|location=New York City|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9781623562168}}