Cousin Bette
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title:
Cousin Bette
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La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please Valérie, who leaves him for a well-off merchant named Crevel
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1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Bette
date created:
2004-11-18T15:56:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T09:22:13Z
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