Cousin Bette: Difference between revisions

The titular character, Lisbeth "Bette" Fischer, is the [[Maiden Aunt]] for her beautiful and virtuous cousin Adeline's family, the Hulots. The Hulots, however, have several problems: the husband, Hector, is a philanderer; their children, Victorin and Hortense, are dilettantes. Bette is consumed by her envy towards her rich relatives and their contempt towards her, but she consoles herself by helping Wenceslas Steinbock, a young sculptor of talent sculptor, with the secret hope that the young man eventually return her affections. But when Hortense marries Wenceslas, it's the last straw for Bette, which then decide to ruin the family. Bette plots to use the family vices and their uneasy relationship with another family, the Crevels, to bring them to their knees, and takes Valérie Marneffe, a married woman that does a side track as courtesan, as her accomplice.

 

 

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