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Cousin Bette: A Parisian Novel of Revenge, Jealousy, and Social Ruin

By Honore de Balzac
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By Honore de Balzac
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Cousin Bette is one of Balzac's darkest and most powerful novels, a Parisian story of jealousy, revenge, sexual appetite, money, and family destruction. Lisbeth Fischer, known as Cousin Bette, is poor, unmarried, resentful, and long treated as a useful dependent by her richer relations. Nursing years of humiliation, she joins forces with the beautiful and calculating Valérie Marneffe, and together they begin to pull apart the respectable Hulot family through seduction, debt, vanity, and car...