Poor Relative 2: Aunt Bei
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"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. Hulot is a very symbolic character. His fall means the end of the glory of the old era and reflects the moral corruption of the entire upper class.
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