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    La Cousine Bette (French pronunciation: [la kuzin bɛt], Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris...
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    two sections focus on just three days. Le Cousin Pons (1847) and La Cousine Bette (1848) tell the story of Les Parents Pauvres (The Poor Relations). The...
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    Facino Cane (1836) Poor Relations (Les parents pauvres) Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette, 1846) Cousin Pons (Le Cousin Pons, 1847) The Lesser Bourgeoisie...
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    Cousin Bette (French: La cousine Bette) is a 1928 French silent historical drama film directed by Max de Rieux and starring Germaine Rouer, Henri Baudin...
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    diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette). The book was originally published as a serial in Le Constitutionnel...
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    changed the spelling of her first name to Bette after Bette Fischer, a character in Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette. During their time in New York, Davis...
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  • known as the cousin german Specific "cousins" include: Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette), an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac that was made into a 1998 movie...
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    the slowly strangling machinations of the law. (3) Most notably in La Cousine Bette Balzac was one of the first novelists to employ the technique of in...
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    income was only 18,000 francs and she had an extra toe. 1838–1846 – La Cousine Bette (1847) – Rastignac does not appear personally, but is so influential...
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    Arcis [fr] (only in the ending by Charles Rabou, considered non-canon) La Cousine Bette (small, unnamed appearance) Le Contrat de mariage (mentioned) Vautrin...
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