Le Cousin Pons ( 1847 ) and La Cousine Bette ( 1848 ) tell the story of Les Parents Pauvres ( The Poor Relations ).

Many of his works have been made into popular films and television serials, including Les Chouans ( 1947 ), Le Père Goriot ( 1968 BBC mini-series ), and La Cousine Bette ( 1974 BBC mini-series, starring Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren ; 1998 film, starring Jessica Lange ).

* La Cousine Bette ( 1846 )

Balzac, Zola claimed had already investigated the psychology of lechery in an experimental manner, in the figure of Hector Hulot in La Cousine Bette.

Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 ), and changed the spelling of her name to " Bette " after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.

He published in succession, Le Scorpion ( 1887 ), Chonchette ( 1888 ), Mademoiselle Jaufre ( 1889 ), Cousine Laura ( 1890 ), La Confession d ' un amant ( 1891 ), Lettres de femmes ( 1892 ), L ' Automne d ' une femme ( 1893 ), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by an exaggerated and revolting study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls, Les Demi-vierges, which was dramatized and produced with great success at the Gymnase on 21 May 1895.

She later became friends with the novelist Honoré de Balzac, and he once wrote that she was an inspiration for the title character of La Cousine Bette.

La Cousine Bette (, Cousin Bette ) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac.

Writing quickly and with intense focus, Balzac produced La Cousine Bette, one of his longest novels, in two months.

He based the second book on a story his sister Laure Surville had written called " La Cousine Rosalie " and published in 1844 in Le Journal des enfants.

Writing intensively, he produced the entire novel, named La Cousine Bette after the main character, in two months.

When creating La Cousine Bette, however, he submitted the work to his editor piece by piece, without viewing a single proof.

The first collected edition of La Cousine Bette was organized into 132 chapters, but these divisions were removed when Balzac added it to his massive collection La Comédie humaine in 1848.

Balzac had written more than seventy novels when he began La Cousine Bette, and populated them with recurring characters.

Having accumulated a considerable fortune in that book, Crevel spends his time in La Cousine Bette enjoying the spoils of his labor.

In the years between that story and La Cousine Bette, he became the Count of Forzheim ; in a letter to the Constitutionnel, Balzac described how Marshal Hulot gained this title.

The presence of Crevel and Marshal Hulot – among others – in La Cousine Bette allows a continuation of each character's life story, adding emphasis or complexity to earlier events.

Other recurring characters appear only briefly in La Cousine Bette ; previous appearances, however, give deep significance to the characters ' presence.

When he resurfaces in La Cousine Bette, he has joined the police and introduces the Hulot family to his aunt, Mme.

Although Vautrin's presence in La Cousine Bette is brief, his earlier adventures in Le Père Goriot provide instant recognition and emotional texture.

The characterization in La Cousine Bette is considered especially skillful.

" Biographer Noel Gerson calls the characters in La Cousine Bette " among the most memorable Balzac ever sketched ".

William Stowe calls La Cousine Bette " a masterpiece of classical realism " and Bellos refers to it as " one of the great achievements of nineteenth-century realism ", comparing it to War and Peace.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

In La Nouvelle-Heloise and Werther tragedy is made intimate.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

La Russell's run in `` Skylark '', debuting next week at Drury Lane, already is a sellout.

`` La Gioconda '', like it or not, is a singer's opera.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* A scale model of Casa Milà ( La Pedrera ) is exhibited at the Catalunya en Miniatura park.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* Earliest date on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

* 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

The theme is likely folk derived and is known as La Folia.