Saint-Yves ou le prisonnier d'Edimbourg (L'évadé d'Edimbourg)

Il (Oscar Wilde) devint le fantoche de la bohême parisienne, l'objet de la raillerie des boulevards, et l'opprobre des lettres anglaises dans la Ville-Lumière.

I could never let this innocent involve himself in the perils and difficulties that beset my course, without some hint of warning, which it was a matter of extreme delicacy to make plain enough and not too plain.