Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel,
and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s
and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of
violent jealousy and sexual passion.
Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic
France struggling with massive industrial and economic change,
Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished
workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and
official dignitaries.
The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes
of ironic comedy and the emergence of a younger generation which
has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate.
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