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=== Claudine de Montesse ===

* [[The Ace]]: He's more of a [[Broken Ace]], though.

* {{spoiler|[[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: He gives one to Cecilia, but she turns him down.}}

* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: This happens when he first met {{spoiler|Louis}}, who thinks he's a full-bodied boy.

* [[Uptown Girl|Uptown Boy]]: His first love was Maura, a cute little maid to his family's home.

 

=== Madame de Montesse ===

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: With Auguste.

* [[No Name Given]]

 

=== Auguste de Montesse ===

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: He and Madame de Montesse.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: He was killed in a house fire along with Cecilia that was set up by Louis, who was his lover, no less.}}

 

=== Andre, Thomas, and Edouard de Montesse ===

* [[Princely Young Man|Princely Young Men]]: They seem to be either the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] or the Defrosting King type.

* {{spoiler|[[Sibling Triangle]]: Both Claudine and Andre love Sirene. [[Downer Ending|It ends... horribly]].}}

 

=== The Doctor ===

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: He (in his 40's at least) and Claudine (who starts the story as a pre-teen boy, by the end is in his late teens)

* {{spoiler|[[Narrator All Along]]}}

 

=== Rosemarie ===

* [[Break the Cutie]]: She witnesses all the disgraces that befalls Claudine, and can only give him limited support. {{spoiler|and for worse, she gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed August and Cecilia.}}

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Pre-[[Character Development]].

 

=== Maura ===

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Poor Maura! It's hard not to feel sorry for her, specially when {{spoiler|she realizes that her first paycheck never arrived home}} and when {{spoiler|her dad dies all of a sudden.}}

* [[Country Mouse]]: Her parents worked as retainers for the Montesse family, and she was even born in the main house (with little!Claudine holding newborn!Maura in his arms). Then they moved back to a nearby village, and Maura came to work to the main home...

 

=== Louis Lacques ===

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]: He worked as Rosemarie's tutor.

 

=== Cecilia Lacques ===

* [[Birds of a Feather]]: She and Claudine bonded over their love of books and poetry.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge On Her]]: She was killed in a house fire along with Claudine's father that was set up by her own brother.}}

 

=== Sirene Berge ===

* {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Do you remember that cute dancing girl who a then-15-year-old Claudine saw through the window of a ballet academy? That's the girl.}}

* [[Sibling Triangle]]: With Andre and Claudine. {{spoiler|She chooses Andre, which led to Claudine to commit suicide.}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]