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Who is Victorin Hulot from Cousin Bette: Part One of Poor Relations and what is their importance? La_Cousine_Bette English & Literature Victorin Hulot | Cousin Bette: Part One of Poor Relations

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Victorin Hulot is the only son of Baron Hector Hulot and Baroness Adeline Fischer Hulot. Victorin is married to Célestine Crevel. Victorin is the father of a young child, born around the same time as his nephew Wenceslas Steinbock, Jr. Victorin, by the close of the narrative, is a well-known and respected lawyer in Paris. It is due to Victorin's persistence and ambition that the Hulot family is ultimately saved from complete devastation. Victorin is the unexpected champion of his mother Adeline and his sister Hortense. The only person who seems unsurprised at Victorin's triumph is his loyal wife, Célestine. Victorin, like his sister Hortense, is for a long time unaware of the Adeline's torment over his father's affairs. Victorin seeks out Madame de Saint-Estève as a final solution to rid himself of the curse of Valérie Marneffe. Somehow, Victorin's profession poses no deterrent to his determination to raise the Hulots out of the mire of disgrace.