Bette, an excruciatingly cunning, poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family

Cousin Bette Honore de Balzac - Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: h

La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who pl