See also: Therese Desqueyroux (homonymy)

Therese Desqueyroux is a novel written by François Mauriac published in 1927.

In this work, from which a film was drawn, François Mauriac lovesong the history " vraie" (it lovesong despite everything the continuation, because the lawsuit and arsenic exist but here all.) of a woman who tried to poison her husband with the Arsenic, in vain. Her husband cleared it and it profited from a Non-lieu, allowing that the business was choked. The novel starts whereas the lawsuit of Therese ends. The narrator makes then a flash back to tell the course of quasi fatal, suggesting what led it to make an attempt on the life of his/her child: Therese chokes under the weight of middle-class conventions, the marriage and maternity, in an environment which seems to him hostile.

The character of Therese Desqueyroux reappeared in another novel of Mauriac, the End of the night , and in a news, Therese in the doctor .

This book, become traditional, was republished in September 2006 by the book of pocket and was illustrated of a foreword of a portrait of woman of Kees Van Dongen of 1920.