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Cousin Bette

Honoré de Balzac

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1846
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 450

A bitter spinster, humiliated for years by her glamorous relations, quietly arms a scheming courtesan against them, and watches the family's fortune, marriages and honour collapse exactly as she planned.

Virtue cuts off your head; vice only cuts off your hair.
Cousin Bette, Honoré de Balzac

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