Bete Noire is run by an organization known as The Hierarchy.

The business group has been a bete noire of the administration, battling hard against Obama's push for a health-care bill and more financial regulation.

The city of Bete Noire is as much a character as a setting.

London was the bete noire of Paris.

Bete Noire is often said to possess a sentience of its own; the city decides who enters and leaves.

Time passes differently in Bete Noire than it does outside of it.

She eventually makes her way to Bete Noire, adopting the name "Lee".

Mr. Tribe, a Harvard law professor, is a bete noire of the conservatives.

The teachers' unions have long been a bete noire of many Republican politicians, who say the unions are obstacles to change.

Lee is not the first to serve as "protector" of Bete Noire; she has had more than one predecessor.

Waxman has developed a reputation as a bete noire of Blackwater, having held multiple hearings on the firm in the past year or so.

The owner of Furor's, a Bete Noire bar in which violence is prohibited.

He is lauded by nationalist politicians for restoring Russian self-respect but has become a bete noire of rights activists.

One suspects that "Bete Noire" will have similar staying power, repaying attentive listening for some time to come.

Jude soon tracks him down in Bete Noire, however, and he is able to pass his legacy to his son.

When Juris tries to leave Bete Noire after this, he rapidly ages and dies.

After a visit from Slate, he seeks out Bete Noire and Juris.

Slate acts as Bete Noire's Chief Examiner, and is considered the city's best detective.

The lyrics of his current album, "Bete Noire," are almost all cliches bobbing to the surface of the music and then drifting away.

When entering and exiting Bete Noire, Lee experiences the city as simply appearing or vanishing around a deserted road.

The Magistrate and "manager" of Bete Noire, Juris answers to a mysterious group called the Hierarchy.

Lee has said that even God has no dominion over Bete Noire; it is run exclusively by The Hierarchy.

Dotter of her Father’s Eyes and Grandville Bete Noire are published by Jonathan Cape.

The story focuses on Lee (also known as the Fallen Angel) who is arguably a superheroine residing in the city of Bete Noire.

For some time, she maintains a sexual relationship with Bete Noire's Magistrate, Doctor Juris, who in many ways is her counterpart in the city.