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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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    masculine and domineering Cousine Bette, and the alluring and impossible love object (Foedora in La Peau de chagrin or the heroine of La fille aux yeux d'or)...
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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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    final 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)...
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  • island of the Seychelles The Cousin (Italian: La cugina), 1974 drama film by Aldo Lado Cousin Cousine, a 1975 French-language film which tells the story...
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    Le Cousin Pons (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette). The book was originally published as a serial in...
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  • "Lotto-Tag" "El día de la Primitiva" 7 "The Twin" "La jumelle" "Der Zwilling" "La gemela" 8 "The Landlady's Cousin" "La cousine de la concierge" "Die Kusine...
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    Prisma (19 September 2021). "Le saviez-vous ? Alessandra Martines est la cousine de Carla Bruni - Gala". Gala.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2021...
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    2024. "La genealogies de Carla Bruni", RF Genealogie Média, Prisma (19 September 2021). "Le saviez-vous ? Alessandra Martines est la cousine de Carla...
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    he once wrote that she was an inspiration for the title character of La Cousine Bette. Desbordes-Valmore was a friend of the writer Louise Crombach, who...
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    Yashodhara (glorieuse) est la cousine et l’épouse principale de Gautama, mère de son fils Rahula. Connue par les Jatakas (légendes de la vie du Bouddha), elle...
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  • Online Lisbeth "Bette" Fischer, title character of Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette Lisbeth Salander, fictional heroine from The Girl with the Dragon...
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    name to Bette after Bette Fischer, a character in Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette. During their time in New York, Davis became a Girl Scout where...
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    64. Pottker, p. 7. Flaherty, ch. 1, subsection "Early years". "Jackie, la cousine d'Amérique". Davis, John H. (1995). The Bouviers: Portrait of an American...
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    La Vieille Fille (The Old Maid or An Old Maid) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. Written in 1836, it was first published as a serial in...
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    of lechery in an experimental manner, in the figure of Hector Hulot in La Cousine Bette.[citation needed] Essential to Zola's concept of the experimental...
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    Illusions perdues (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    from 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...
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    Prisma (19 September 2021). "Le saviez-vous ? Alessandra Martines est la cousine de Carla Bruni – Gala". Gala.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 October 2021...
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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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    Eugène de Rastignac (category La Comédie humaine)
    her 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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    Beaumarchais and several works by Honoré de Balzac, including La Cousine Bette and La Bourse. His works may be seen in the Musée Baron Gérard [fr] in...
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    perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (as the main character), La Cousine Bette, Le Contrat de mariage, and finally as the main character in the...
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    Here he edited La Comedie humaine and wrote some of his finest novels, including La Rabouilleuse, Une ténébreuse affaire, and La Cousine Bette. Although...
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    La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...
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  • Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Later, Etta also reads La Cousine Bette by Balzac, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Alphonse Daudet's...
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    Antonio de la Parra Vincent Colin Cousinons la cousine Martine Viard Édith Scob 1996-97 Le Gars Marina Tsvetaeva Édith Scob 1998 Ardèle ou la Marguerite...
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    La Bourse (The Purse) is a short story by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1832 by Mame-Delaunay as one of the Scènes de la vie...
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    Eugénie Grandet (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
    Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising...
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    Guerres secrètes à l'Élysée, by Paul Barril, ed Albin Michel, Paris (1996) "La cousine de Ségolène candidate FN". Le Nouvel Observateur. France. 21 September...
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  • predecessor of Charles Scribner's Sons. Honoré de Balzac – Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette) Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Children of the Night James Fenimore...
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