Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac, Honoré de Balzac

464 pages first pub 1846 (editions)

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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentfu...

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