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* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Gertrude is full of LesYay, but she falls hard for her fiancé Antonin when she meets him.
* TheDeuteragonist: While the book is named after Gertrude, whose story takes up most of the pages, Anne has point of view chapters of her own.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Possibly the sweetest and most innocent of the Doves, with golden blond hair to boot.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to Gertrude’s Dark.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Falls hard for Antonin as soon as she meets him.
* ShrinkingViolet: Due to a mixture of natural shyness and very restrictive education.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Gertrude is full of LesYay, but she falls hard for her fiancé Antonin when she meets him.
* TheDeuteragonist: While the book is named after Gertrude, whose story takes up most of the pages, Anne has point of view chapters of her own.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Possibly the sweetest and most innocent of the Doves, with golden blond hair to boot.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to Gertrude’s Dark.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Gertrude is full of LesYay, but she falls hard for her fiancé Antonin when she meets him.
* TheDeuteragonist: While the book is named after Gertrude, whose story takes up most of the pages, Anne has point of view chapters of her own.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Possibly the sweetest and most innocent of the Doves, with golden blond hair to boot.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to Gertrude’s Dark.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Falls hard for Antonin as soon as she meets him.
* ShrinkingViolet: Due to a mixture of natural shyness and very restrictive education.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Gertrude is full of LesYay, but she falls hard for her fiancé Antonin when she meets him.
* TheDeuteragonist: While the book is named after Gertrude, whose story takes up most of the pages, Anne has point of view chapters of her own.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Possibly the sweetest and most innocent of the Doves, with golden blond hair to boot.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to Gertrude’s Dark.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Falls hard for Antonin as soon as she meets him.
* ShrinkingViolet: Due to a mixture of natural shyness and very restrictive education.
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The characters who appear in Book 8, ''Gertrude et le Nouveau Monde''[[note]]Gertrude and the New World[[/note]].
[[folder: Gertrude de Crémainville]]
*AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Anne is full of LesYay, but her crush on Nayati is as genuine as they come and [[spoiler: they appear to be endgame]].
*AwfulWeddedLife: With Léon, who is an abusive JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
*BigSisterInstinct: The main motivator of her relationship with Anne, [[HideYourLesbians though possibly not the only one]].
*BreakfastClub: Forms this with Margot when they realize that all the other women in their church look down on them due to Margot's race and Gertrude's good-for-nothing husband and past.
*BreakTheHaughty: [[TraumaCongaLine Her storyline]] is possibly the darkest of the entire series.
*CharacterDevelopment: Over her trials, she goes from a haughty AlphaBitch to a selfless woman able to develop empathy for everyone, even a cow.
* FamilyHonor: The Crémainvilles may be broke, but they are related to princes of the Blood; this is the source of Gertrude's {{Pride}}.
* ImportantHaircut: Her beautiful black hair is cut short when she is publicly flogged before being sent to prison. Six months later she still mourns for it.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Dark Feminine to Anne’s Light Feminine.
*NotSoDifferent: A big part of her character development rests in her ability to relate to Cléonice and Margot, women of much humbler backgrounds.
*RavenHairIvorySkin: How she is depicted on the cover of her book.
*RichesToRags: Starts as a noble student of the Royal House, and ends up [[spoiler: the widow of a homesteader in Québec. Though her life gets easier after his death thanks to her friends in high places, she never regains her former wealth or status.]]
*StatuesqueStunner: She is the tallest of the actresses of Esther, even more so than Henriette who is said to be unfemininely tall.
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[[folder: Anne de Castillon]]
*AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Gertrude is full of LesYay, but she falls hard for her fiancé Antonin when she meets him.
*TheDeuteragonist: While the book is named after Gertrude, whose story takes up most of the pages, Anne has point of view chapters of her own.
*HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Possibly the sweetest and most innocent of the Doves, with golden blond hair to boot.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to Gertrude’s Dark.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Falls hard for Antonin as soon as she meets him.
* ShrinkingViolet: Due to a mixture of natural shyness and very restrictive education.
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[[folder: Marguerite de Caylus]]
See Characters/LesColombesDuRoiSoleilMembersOfTheCourt
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[[folder: Cléonice]]
*MarriedAtSea: [[spoiler: Has a beautiful wedding on the ship that takes her and the other prisoners to Québec.]]
*TakingAThirdOption: Stay in prison in France or marry a complete stranger upon arriving in Québec? [[spoiler: Not if she marries a member of the ship crew first!]]
*WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Her unusual name comes from her parents wanting to call her either Cléonte or Bérénice.
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[[folder: Héloïse Dunoyer, née de Lestrange]]
See Characters/LesColombesDuRoiSoleilCharlotte.
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[[folder: Eugène Dunoyer]]
See Characters/LesColombesDuRoiSoleilHortense.
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[[folder: Léon Gardinier]]
*TheAlcoholic
*AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He is killed while hunting for beaver fur without a license as a get-rich-fast scheme]].
*CrazyJealousGuy: Hates the idea of Nayati being anywhere near Gertrude.
*JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After a first movement of repulsion, Gertrude finds out that she can handle living with him, as he teaches her new things and is hopeful about their future in the New World. That is, until winter comes and [[spoiler: he leaves her to starve to death in a snowbound hut and starts abusing her after Nayati comes to her aid]].
*WouldHurtAWoman: After Gertrude is saved from starvation by Nayati, he starts beating her.
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[[folder: Magena / Margot]]
*BreakfastClub: Forms this with Gertrude when they realize that all the other women in their church look down on them due to Margot's race and Gertrude's good-for-nothing husband and past.
*TheChiefsDaughter: The daughter of a Huron chief.
*ConvertForLove: Subverted. She was baptized as Christian so that her ArrangedMarriage could happen, but she remains attached to her religion and would rather have kept it.
*ImperiledInPregnancy: The French and Hurons go to war against the Iroquois during her pregnancy, and she has to take refuge in the minor colonial fort with all the other women and children.
*MeaningfulRename: Averted. Upon her semi-forced baptism, she was just given the European name that sounded the most like her birth name.
*PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: For all his flaws and her difficulties in her new life, she seems to genuinely respect and care for her husband.
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[[folder: Nayati]]
*BigDamnHeroes: Saves Gertrude from death by starvation and exposure when he brings her food during a snowstorm and teaches her how to handle a Canadian winter.
* MeaningfulName: ‘’Nayati’’ means ‘’fighter’’.
*SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The only character in the book to call Margot by her birth name, which leads Gertrude to trusting him when he tells her that "Magena" sent him.
*ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Margot tells Gertrude that in their clan, sons are reared by the men of the mother's family. He promises her to be this when she gives birth to a boy.]]
*TheStoic: Despite being fluent in French, he's not a very talkative guy. He is the love interest with the most subtle resolution in the series.
*TallDarkAndHandsome
*WarriorPrince: The son of a Huron chief, and an able warrior.
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[[folder: Jean-Louis]]
*TheGamblingAddict: Implied. While his wife is at mass, he is at the tavern dicing.
*MightyWhitey: Forged the French-Huron alliance and his ArrangedMarriage to [[TheChiefsDaughter Margot]] when his colonial regiment rescued her village from attacking Iroquois.
*PapaWolf: Shows signs that he'll be this, as his protectiveness of Margot extends to their unborn child.
*PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: He appears to be very much in love with his wife.
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[[folder: Augustin de Trimont]]
*EveryoneIsRelated: A distant cousin to Eugène.
*PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Madame de Caylus sets him up with Anne specifically because she wants to go to Québec, and he’s been appointed there; he falls for her immediately and proposes barely a few days later.
*SatelliteLoveInterest: Sweet and handsome and attentive and only present in the narrative as a means to get Anne over the Atlantic.
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