1900 La Cousine Cousin Bette Honore Balzac France Novel Movie Hugh Laurie Art Fr
La Cousine Bette Les parents pauvres Honoré de Balzac (The Cousin Bette) – In French language. Paris, Calmann-Lévy , 1900.
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Pp. /7/ + 253 + /4/ Size: 12 x 18 cm.
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La Cousine Bette (Cousin 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 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. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette’s cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family’s fortune and good name to please Valérie, who leaves him for a tradesman named Crevel. The book is part of the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of Balzac’s novel sequence La Comédie humaine (“The Human Comedy”). This novel had a numerous adaptions but the most known was the 1998 movie directed by Des MecAnuf starring Jessica Lange and Hugh Laurie.
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Binding: Original quarter leather binding. Giltstamped spine cover, slightly bumped edges, minor damage on the edges of the panels. Condition: Marbled endpapers with pen inscriptions, flyleaf, title page and PP. 3-5, 9. Slightly detached half title and title page. Small signs of use and aging, visible on scans, signature of the previous owner on the flyleaf and title pages dated 1934 and 1962.
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For condition and details see the scans.
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