Cover; Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Translation; DIABOLIQUES; Preface to Les Diaboliques (1874); The Crimson Curtain; Don Juan's Finest Conquest; Happiness in Crime; Beneath the Cards in a Game of Whist; At a Dinner of Atheists; A Woman's Vengeance; APPENDIXES; A Page from History-1606; Preface to The Last Mistress (1865); Translator's Notes