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Cousin Betty

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La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honore 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 Valerie 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 Valerie, who leaves him for a well-off merchant named Crevel.

The book is part of the Scenes de la vie parisienne section of Balzac's novel sequence La Comedie humaine ("e;The Human Comedy"e;).

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Otbebookpublishing
3968656105 / 9783968656106
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13/01/2021
English
1 pages
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