Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac .
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It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeare\'s Othello and Tolstoy\'s War and Peace .
Part of Balzac\'s La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author\'s last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series.
Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac