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The protagonist is Claudine de Montesse, a softspoken and sensitive female-to-male trans person. Born to a French noble family, he starts to identify as a male at age eight; when he's ten years old, his well-intentioned but inexpert mother then takes him to a doctor. Claudine opens up to him, they become good friends, and then we start to see how Claudine's life begins to develop from the beginning to the end of the story...

 

 

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* [[The Ace]]: At university, Claudine becomes this. Obviously, he's more of a [[Broken Ace]].

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Claudine's parents.

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

* [[Broken Bird]]: Claudine is a female-bodied-but-male-identifying example.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: 15-year-old Claudine sees a pretty girl through the window of a ballet academy. Two years later, the girl returns to his life: {{spoiler|she's his third and last love, Sirene}}.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Rosemarie.

* [[Country Mouse]]: Maura

* [[Downer Ending]]

* [[Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]: More exactly, transsexuality. It was groundbreaking [[Fair for Its Day|in its day]].

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Claudine is a blond

* [[Hot Librarian]]: Cecilia Lacques, Claudine's second love, worked as the librarian of the local highschool.

* [[Jerkass]]: Louis.

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Louis Lacques, and Claudine in a sense.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Claudine falls in love with Cecilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl. Cecilia's younger brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claudine's father Auguste, {{spoiler|as is Cecilia}}. Rosemarie is in love with Claudine since they were kids, is jealous of Claudine and Cecilia and serves as an [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Unwitting]] ([[Alternate Character Interpretation|or perhaps intentional]]) [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Instigator of Doom]] {{spoiler|when she reveals Cecilia and Auguste's affair to Louis, who goes [[Yandere]] and kills them both.}} And that's without bringing Maura or Sirene into the mix.

* [[Shojo]]

* [[Sleep Cute]]: A very fatigated and cold Maura falls asleep on Claudine's shoulder right after arriving to the Montesse home in a rainy day.

* {{spoiler|[[Spurned Into Suicide]]: What specifically pushes Claudine into shooting himself dead is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Sirene

* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: When Claudine meets {{spoiler|Louis}}.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Claudine's neighbor Rosemarie, who confessed her love to him but was rejected. She does seem to be the girl who understands him better, out of all of these involved in his life: she calls him "a true man given a female body".

* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: {{spoiler|A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claudine and Cecilia, not knowing that Louis was also Auguste's lover. Louis ''snaps'' massively and burns down Cecilia's house, killing her and Auguste, and leaving Rosemarie herself with severe burns in half of her face.}}

* [[Uptown Girl|Uptown Boy]]: Claudine finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

 

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