Despite knowing about her husband's affair with the actress Josepha, Adeline is more concerned with finding a husband for her daughter Hortense, who marries Count Steinbock.
Bianchon diagnoses one character in this novel with a disease that is peculiar to negroes and American tribes because Carabine tells a wealthy Brazilian that the aforementioned character plans to marry Crevel. Before suffering the rage of Baron Montes Montejanos, Valerie Marneffe had received a statue of Delilah from Wenceslas, a sculptor discovered by the title character. Despite knowing about her husband's affair with the actress Josepha, Adeline is more concerned with finding a husband for her daughter Hortense, who marries Count Steinbock. Their marriage causes Lisbeth Fischer to attempt to take revenge on the Hulot family. Published under the title Poor Relations along with Cousin Pons, FTP, name this novel by Balzac about a malevolent title relative.
Bianchon diagnoses one character in this novel with a disease that is peculiar to negroes and American tribes because Carabine tells a wealthy Brazilian that the aforementioned character plans to marry Crevel.
La {Cousine Bette} [or {Cousin Betty}]