Cousin Bette

1847 novel by Honoré de Balzac

La Cousine Bette (French pronunciation: [la kuzin bɛt], Cousin Bette) is an 1847 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.

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