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Cousin Bette – i.e. Lisbeth Fischer – is the unmarried and poor relative of the Baroness Adeline Hulot. With a perverted and unkind eye she watches as this cousin of hers suffers numerous humiliations in her marriage to a sex-fiend, the Baron Hector Hulot. He is obsessed with sex and always has numerous mistresses. However, he despises these women while lusting for them. The only woman he respects is his wife, Adeline, but that does not keep him from humiliating and wounding her feelings by seeking up his mistresses and spending not only himself, but also substantial sums on them. He borrows money which he cannot pay, commits frauds, etc., etc. in order to get money for all these women whom he is besotted with even though he despises them. As it is they demand money, and while the greedy mistresses are getting richer the entire Hulot-family gets poorer and poorer because of his erotomania. He deceives the State with the help of his uncle and when this fraud is disclosed the elder man commits suicide in jail.
Baron Hulot used to be a good military man, but when the Emperor Napoleon lost his power so did he and now he only passes time visiting the mistresses, but without any ideas of anything else than loitering. When the Baron leaves the home after his fraud he lives the life of a rich man while his wife has to fend for the family, all the time even trying to win him back. However, he insists on bringing his newest mistress. When his wife is sick and dying she overhears him talking to the cook and promising her that she shall become the new Baroness Hulot when she has died, something which he is sure will happen soon. Overhearing this unkind comment which only serves him in his perpetual hunt for sex Adeline has a stroke. As the Baron said the sick and unhappy woman dies within as few days.
Very soon after the cook becomes the new Baroness Hulot which becomes Balzac’s judgment over this philandering Baron. He himself was of noble birth, but in the portrait of Hector Hulot he gives a lethal image of this lazy and good-for-nothing nobility. At the same time it is obvious that his portrait of the cook is full of prejudices. Yes, she is fat and dumb, but she is also uneducated which is not her own fault. The only one to blame over this sad development is the Baron Hulot.
Cousin Bette – i.e. Lisbeth Fischer – is the unmarried and poor relative of the Baroness Adeline Hulot. With a perverted and unkind eye she watches as this cousin of hers suffers numerous humiliations in her marriage to a sex-fiend, the Baron Hector Hulot. He is obsessed with sex and always has numerous mistresses. However, he despises these women while lusting for them. The only woman he respects is his wife, Adeline, but that does not keep him from humiliating and wounding her feelings by seeking up his mistresses and spending not only himself, but also substantial sums on them. He borrows money which he cannot pay, commits frauds, etc., etc. in order to get money for all these women whom he is besotted with even though he despises them. As it is they demand money, and while the greedy mistresses are getting richer the entire Hulot-family gets poorer and poorer because of his erotomania. He deceives the Hotele w Warszawie State with the help of his uncle and when this fraud is disclosed the elder man commits suicide in jail.
Baron Hulot used to be a good military man, but when the Emperor Napoleon lost his power so did he and now he only passes time visiting the mistresses, but without any ideas of anything else than loitering. When the Baron leaves the home after his fraud he lives the life of a rich man while his wife has to fend for the family, all the time even trying to win him back. However, he insists on bringing his newest mistress. When his wife is sick and dying she overhears him talking to the cook and promising her that she shall become the new Baroness Hulot when she has died, something which he is sure will happen soon. Overhearing this unkind comment which only serves him in his perpetual hunt for sex Adeline has a stroke. As the Baron said the sick and unhappy woman dies within as few days.
Very soon after the cook becomes the new Baroness Hulot which becomes Balzac’s judgment over this philandering Baron. He himself was of noble birth, but in the portrait of Hector Hulot he gives a lethal image of this lazy and good-for-nothing nobility. At the same time it is obvious that his portrait of the cook is full of prejudices. Yes, she is fat and dumb, but she is also uneducated which is not her own fault. The only one to blame over this sad development is the Baron Hulot.