📖 Le Сousine Bette

Child, Lisbeth tried to pull the nose of his cousin, Adeline. One was beautiful and the other ugly. Jealousy redoubled when the wife Adeline Hulot d'Ervy, a libertine, but the brother of a marshal of France. Relegated to the bottom of a living Empire faded, this poor relation will hatch a terrible revenge. Having started his life "real hungry goat," she finally "a lioness", after having ruined her cousin, niece Hortense, a young and talented Polish sculptor. Balzac has never camped both vice and virtue, art and finance. The last work with Cousin Pons, its counterpart, La Cousine Bette is the swan song of a great Balzac, who also was ruined for the sake of art and women.