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Index
Cover Copyright Page Title Page Contents Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of HonorÉ De Balzac Map COUSIN BETTE
1. Where will love find a niche? 2. From father-in-law to mother-in-law 3. Josépha 4. The perfumer’s sudden access of pity 5. The way to arrange a marriage for a beautiful girl with no money 6. The Captain loses the battle 7. A woman’s fine life-story 8. Hortense 9. Character sketch of an old maid 10. Bette’s admirer 11. Conversation between an old maid and a young one 12. Monsieur le Baron Hector Hulot d’Ervy 13. The Louvre 14. In which one can see that pretty women cross the libertine’s path, just as dupes put themselves in the way of scoundrels 15. The Marneffe household 16. The artist’s attic 17. An exile’s story 18. The adventure of a spider who finds in her web a beautiful fly that is too big for her. 19. How couples separate in the thirteenth district 20. One woman lost, one woman found 21. The daughter’s romance 22. Let girls have their way 23. An interview 24. In which chance, which often brings about true romances, makes things go so well that they cannot continue like that for long 25. Marneffe’s strategy 26. A terrible indiscretion 27. Final secrets 28. Bette’s transformation 29. The life and opinions of Monsieur Crevel 30. A continuation of the preceding chapter 31. Caliban’s last attempt to keep Ariel 32. Failed revenge 33. The way many marriage contracts are made 34. A magnificent example of a devoted follower 35. In which the tail-end of an ordinary novel comes in the middle of this story which is only too close to reality, touches on the amatory, and is frighteningly moral. 36. The two brides 37. Moral reflections on immorality 38. In which we can see the result of Crevel’s opinions 39. Handsome Hulot dismantled 40. One of the seven plagues of Paris 41. Cousin Bette’s hopes 42. The extremities to which libertines reduce their legitimate wives 43. The grieving family 44. The dinner 45. Back from the dead with afortune 46. The age at which a ladies’ man becomes jealous 47. First scene of clever feminine play-acting 48. A scene befitting a porter’s lodge 49. Second scene of clever feminine play-acting 50. Crevel takes his revenge 51. Master Crevel’s little house 52. Two brothers-in-arms 53. Two crazy fanatics 54. Another view of a legitimately married couple 55. What makes great artists 56. Effect of the honeymoon on the arts 57. Of sculpture 58. In which can he seen the power of that socially disruptive force, poverty. 59. Reflections on beauty spots 60. A fine entrance 61. On Poles in general and on Steinbock in particular 62. Commentary on the story of Delilah 63. He is young, Polish, and an artist. What do you expect him to do? 64. The return home 65. The first dagger-blow 66. The first quarrel of married life 67. A suspicion always follows the first dagger-blow 68. The discovery of a child 69. A second father for the Marneffe child 70. The difference between mother and daughter 71. A third father for the Marneffe child 72. The five Fathers of the Marneffe Church 73. Exploitation of the father 74. A sad happiness 75. The ravages caused by women like Madame Marneffe in the bosoms of families 76. A brief history of favourites 77. The impudence of one of the five fathers 78. Another summons 79. The door shut in his face 80. An awakening 81. The cards are reshuffled 82. A surgical operation 83. Moral reflections 84. Fructus belli; the outcome depends on the Minister for War 85. Another disaster 86. A different style of dressing 87. A sublime courtesan 88. Crevel pontificates 89. In which the false courtesan arises a saint 90. Another guitar* 91. A picture of Marshal Hulot 92. The Prince’s dressing-down 93. A very short encounter between Marshal Hulot, Comte de Forzheim, and his Excellency, Monseigneur le Maréchal Cottin, Prince de Wissembourg, Due d’Orfano, Minister of War. 94. A theory about press reports 95. The brother’s dressing-down 96. A fine funeral 97. Departure of the prodigal father 98. In which Josépha reappears 99. A peg to hang on 100. The Marshal’s legacy 101. Great changes 102.The sword of Damocles 103. Baron Hulot’s friend 104. Vice and Virtue 105. Liquidation of the firm of Thoul and Bijou 106. The angel and the devil hunt in company 107. Another devil 108. The police 109. Change from Père Thoul to Père Thorec 110. A family scene 111. Another family scene 112. The effects of blackmail 113. Combabus 114. A courtesan’s dinner-party 115. In which Madame Nourrisson is seen at work 116. A little house in 1840 117. The last scene of clever feminine play-acting 118. Vengeance strikes Valérie 119• The mendicant 120. Doctor’s comments 121. The hand of God and the Brazilian’s too 122. Valérie’s last bon mot 123. Crevel’s last words 124. One aspect of speculation 125. In which we are not told why all the stove-fitters of Paris are Italians 126. A second Atala, quite as much of a savage as the first one,* but not as good a Catholic 127. The preceding chapter continued 128. Recognition 129. Atala’s last word 130. Return of the prodigal father 131. In praise of forgetting 132. An appalling ending, but true to reality
Appendix The Money Plot of Cousin Bette Explanatory Notes
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