History Manga / Claudine

Claude de Montesse is a trans man living in early 20th century France. Born in a woman's body, he was assumed female at birth and thus given the feminine name Claudine. It wasn't until he was eight that he began to dress in traditional masculine clothing and inform everyone that he was really a boy. While his father respected this, Claude's mother insisted on taking him to a psychiatrist. Claude would later develop something of a friendship with the psychiatrist, who would take a deep interest in the young boy.

''Claudine'' (クローディーヌ...!, ''Kurōdīnu...!'', "Claudine...!") is a 1978 {{shojo}} manga by Creator/RiyokoIkeda. It was serialized in ''Weekly Margaret'' in January 1978 before being released as a single volume later that same year. An English translation was published in 2018 by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. The manga is notable for being one of the first manga (if not ''the'' first) to feature an explicitly trans character as well as explore trans related issues in a sympathetic light.

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%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: Rosemarie gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed Auguste and Cécilia.

%%* TheIngenue

%% LoveDodecahedron: Claude falls in love with Cécilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl. Cécilia's brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claude's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cécilia]]. Rosemarie is in love with Claude since they were kids and is jealous of Claude and Cécilia and serves as an {{Unwitting|InstigatorOfDoom}} [[spoiler: when she reveals Cécilia and Auguste's affair to Louis, who goes {{Yandere}} and kills them both.]] And that's without bringing Maura or Sirène into the mix.

%%* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Doctor, who narrates the story as he reminiscences about his old cases. He does think that Claude was right into identify himself as a male.]]

%%* ProperLady: Cécilia is young woman

* BrokenAce: While Claude is popular on campus, he still struggles in his romantic life.

%%* NiceGuy

%%* PrincelyYoungMan: Claude and his brothers.

%%* WhiteHairBlackHeart: [[spoiler:Louis has white hair, and is one of the most vicious characters in the story.]]

The psychiatrist won't be the only one: Claude's good looks, natural charisma, and gentlemanly demeanor will prove irresistible to multiple woman as he grows up into a young man. Four in particular- his childhood friend Rosemarie, the sweet maid Maura, the stunning librarian Cécilia, and the lovely ballerina Sirène- will show him how love can hurt as much as heal.

''Claudine'' (クローディーヌ...!, ''Kurōdīnu...!'', "Claudine...!") is a 1978 {{shojo}} manga by Creator/RiyokoIkeda. It was serialized in ''Weekly Margaret'' in January 1978 before being released as a single volume later that same year. An English translation was published in 2018 by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. The manga is notable for being one of the first (if not ''the'' first) manga to feature an explicitly transgender character, as well as explore trans related issues.

'''Note''': Claude presents as male in story and will be referred to as such on TV Tropes.

* TheAce: At university, Claude becomes a popular gentleman and scholar whose even invited to events like the gentleman's club. Despite his success at university, he's a BrokenAce due to his tragic love life and gender dysphoria.

%%* BreakTheCutie: Claude, [[spoiler: Maura]], [[spoiler: Rosemarie]]
* BrokenBird: Claude is a trans man who doesn't get much respect in life. [[spoiler:The discrimination he faces- in addition to being rejected by Sirène- ultimately breaks him.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: When Claude was fifteen-years-old, he saw a pretty girl through the window of a ballet academy. Two years later, the girl comes back into his life: her name is Sirène, and she becomes his third and last love.

%%* CountryMouse: Maura

%%* {{Jerkass}}: Louis.

* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler:Sirène's secret affair with Claude's oldest brother, Andrew, and her choosing him over Claude is the primary factor in Claude's decision to shoot himself.]]

%%* TheAce: At university, Claude becomes this. Obviously, he's more of a BrokenAce.

* MegaTwintails: As a kid, Rosemarie's full, curly hair created pigtails larger than her head whenever she put it up.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Rosemarie's love for Claude is reject by him and he never falls for her. His own feelings for Cécilia are ultimately rejected too.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Claude passionately declares his love to Cécilia one night, but she rejects him.

* ChekhovsGunman: When Claude was fifteen-year-old, he saw a pretty girl through the window of a ballet academy. Two years later, the girl comes back into his life; her name is Sirène, and she becomes his third and last love.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Claude's neighbor, Rosemarie, is in love with him. She confessed to him but was ultimately rejected. She does seem to be the girl who understood him the most out of all of those involved in his life: though she still refers to him by his birth name and with female pronouns, she calls him "a true man given a female body", in contrast to Cécilia who could only ever see Claude as a girl.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosemarie loved Claude and was jealous of any other woman he happened to fall in love with.
* ComingOfAgeStory: ''Claudine'' tells the story of a noble young trans man growing up from a boy to a young man.

* DownerEnding: The story ends with [[spoiler: Claude committing suicide after finding out his lover left him for his oldest brother]].

* HotLibrarian: Cécilia Lacques is a beautiful young woman who worked as a librarian of Claude's high school.

* KickTheDog: Rosemarie meets Maura on her way to send her family a paycheck. Maura is lost and Rosemarie deliberately sends her in the opposite direction out of jealousy.
* IdiotBall: The last chapter is full of this when practically everyone around Claude begin to behave like assholes. [[spoiler:Sirène cheats on Claude with his eldest brother Andrew, the brother himself telling Claude bluntly "I forgave her this sin, because you're the girl", after which the psychiatrist technically finishes our main character, suggesting that he is "an imperfect male" on account of being born in a woman's body.]]

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques and Claude are both stunningly pretty men with long blond hair.

* LoveHurts: Claude's love affairs all end badly; he falls hard for Maura and they share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them, leading her to send Maura is sent back home. Cécilia can only see Claude as a female friend, rejecting his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, [[spoiler:and is later murdered]]. Sirène [[spoiler: chooses Claude's eldest brother Andrew over him, resulting in Claude's decision to commit suicide]].
* MegaTwintails: Rosemarie's full curly hair created pigtails larger than her head whenever she put it up as a kid.

%% NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Doctor, who narrates the story as he reminiscences about his old cases. He does think that Claude was right into identify himself as a male.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Claude's mother is a good person but is ''completely'' unprepared to handle Claude's situation. Claude's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, letting Claude dress and act as he likes instead of trying to force him to be someone he's not. That said, Auguste has his own personal issues that he's not dealing with, mainly that being [[spoiler:his affairs with Louis and Louis's sister, Cécilia]].

* SleepCute: A very fatigued and cold Maura falls asleep on Claude's shoulder right after arriving to the de Montesse home on a rainy day.
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Claude kills himself]] on a snowy night. It's still snowing when Rosemarie visits his grave.
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler:What specifically pushes Claude into shooting himself is how Sirène- his third and last love- left him for his older brother Andrew.]]

* TransEqualsGay: Played with; Claude is aware that people who don't truly know him will mistake any relationship he has with a woman as a same-sex relationship. It's why he and Sirène are careful to keep their relationship hidden even though Sirène knows that Claude is a heterosexual trans man.
* TransRelationshipTroubles: Claude's relationship with Maura is interfered with because it's seen as same-sex and thus inappropriate. Cécilia rejects him because she sees him as "a girl".
* TransTribulations: While a lot of Claude's issues are directly caused by his turbulent love-life, the fact that he's seen by others as a masculine woman instead of the man he is definitely exacerbates these issues. Something that [[spoiler:contributes towards [[SpurnedIntoSuicide his suicide]] is a phone call he has with his psychologist, who tries to assure him by saying that he's a man who happened to have an imperfect body. Claude interprets this to mean that he'll never truly be a man because of the body he was born into]].
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When he first sees Claude, Louis mistakes him for a cisboy. It isn't until Rosemarie mentions Claude's relation to de Montesse that Louis realizes Claude was born female.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claude and Cécilia, not knowing that Louis was Auguste's first lover. Louis snaps massively, setting a gamekeeper's hut holding Auguste and Cécilia on fire. The fire ends up killing them both, and leaves Rosemarie herself with severe burns on half of her face.
* UptownGirl: A gender-inverted variant between Claude and Maura: Claude is the youngest son of the rich de Montesse family while Maura is a poor maid who enters the de Montesse home in order to earn money for her sick father. Maura becomes Claude's first love and they wind up sharing a first kiss.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Louis had been having an affair with Auguste (Claude's father) for years, and when he finds out through Rosemarie that Auguste was cheating on him with Louis's sister, Cécilia, he ''completely'' flips out, setting fire to a hut while Auguste and Cécilia are still inside.]]

* BrokenBird: Claude is a transman who doesn't get much respect in life. [[spoiler:The discrimination he faces- in addition to being rejected by Sirène- ultimately breaks him.]]

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Claude's neighbor, Rosemarie, is in love with him. She confessed to him but was ultimately rejected. She does seem to be the girl who understood him the most out of all of those involved in his life: though she still refers to him by his birthname and with female pronouns, she calls him "a true man given a female body", in contrast to Cécilia who could only ever see Claude as a girl.

* ComingOfAgeStory: ''Claudine'' tells the story of a noble young transman growing up from child young boy to a young man.

* IdiotBall: The last chapter is full of this when practically everyone around Claude begin to behave like assholes. [[spoiler:Sirène cheets on Claude with his eldest brother Andrew, the brother himself telling Claude bluntly "I forgave her this sin, because you're the girl", after which the psychiatrist technically finishes our main character, suggesting that he is "an imperfect male" on account of being born in a woman's body.]]

* LoveHurts: Claude's love affairs all end badly; He falls hard for Maura and they share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them, leading her to send Maura is sent back home. Cécilia can only see Claude as a female friend, rejecting his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, [[spoiler:and is later murdered]]. Sirène [[spoiler: chooses Claude's eldest brother Andrew over him, resulting in Claude's decision to commit suicide]].

* TransEqualsGay: Played with; Claude is aware that people who don't truly know him will mistake any relationship he has with a woman as a same-sex relationship. It's why he and Sirene are careful to keep their relationship hidden even though Sirène knows that Claude is a heterosexual trans man.

Claude de Montesse is a transman living in early 20th century France. Born in a woman's body, he was assumed female at birth and thus given the feminine name Claudine. It wasn't until he was eight that he began to dress in traditional masculine clothing and inform everyone that he was really a boy. While his father respected this, Claude's mother insisted on taking him to a psychiatrist. Claude would later develop something of a friendship with the psychiatrist, who would take a deep interest in the young boy.

* TransEqualsGay: Played with; Claude is aware that people who don't truly know him will mistake any relationship he has with a woman as a same-sex relationship. It's why he and Sirene are careful to keep their relationship hidden even though Sirène knows that Claude is a heterosexual tranman.

* IdiotBall: The last chapter is full of this when practically everyone around Claude begin to behave like assholes. [[spoiler;Sirène cheets on Claude with his eldest brother Andrew, the brother himself telling Claude bluntly "I forgave her this sin, because you're the girl", after which the psychiatrist technically finishes our main character, suggesting that he is "an imperfect male" on account of being born in a woman's body.]]

!!This mange includes examples of:

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Claude, towards Cecilia. Rosemarie, for Claude.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Claude gives one to Cecilia, but is rejected.]]
%%* ArrangedMarriage: Claude's parents.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Claude and Cecilia bonded over their love of books and poetry.

* BrokenBird: Claude is a transgender man who doesn't get much respect in life. Naturally, the discrimination breaks him
* ChekhovsGunman: 15-year-old Claude 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, Sirène]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Claude's neighbor Rosemarie is in love with him, she 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".
%%* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosemarie, specially when younger.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Tells the story of a noble young man growing from childhood to young adulthood [[spoiler: with a DownerEnding, however.]]

* DownerEnding: The story ends with [[spoiler: Claude committing suicide after finding out his lover left him for his brother.]]
%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:Rosemarie gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed Auguste and Cecilia.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Poor, ''poor'' Claude takes his life after his third LoveInterest chooses his brother over him.]]
%%* HotLibrarian: Cecilia Lacques, Claude's second love, worked as the librarian of the local high school.

%%* KickTheDog: When [[spoiler: Rosemarie "loses" Maura's first paycheck.]] Claude notices what happened despite everyone else believing [[spoiler: it was lost in the mail]], but he doesn't say anything.
* IdiotBall: The last chapter is full of this,practically all surrounding Claude begin to behave like assholes. Sirène changes Claude with his brother, the brother himself without any emotions tells him "I forgave her this sin, because you're the girl", after which the psychiatrist technically finishes our main character, suggesting that he is "the wrong male."
* InterGenerationalFriendship: The doctor (in his 40's at least) and Claude (starts the story as a pre-teen boy, by the end is in his early twenties).
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques, and Claude, who both have long beautiful hair.
* LoveDodecahedron: Claude 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 Claude's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cecilia]]. Rosemarie is in love with Claude since they were kids, is jealous of Claude and Cecilia and serves as an {{Unwitting|InstigatorOfDoom}} ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or perhaps intentional]]) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom 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 Sirène into the mix.
* LoveHurts: Claude's love affairs all end up badly. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home. (Then again, her dad had just died so she had to go anyway).]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claude as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirène? [[spoiler: She chooses Claude's eldest brother Andrew over him... and then Claude offs himself.]]
* MegaTwintails: Young Rosemarie's pigtails were bigger than her head!
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler:Rosemarie never stopped loving and caring for Claude, and we see her visiting Claude's grave.]]
* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Doctor, who narrates the story as he reminiscences about his old cases. He does think that Claude was right into identify himself as a male.]]
* NoNameGiven: The Doctor and Claude's mom aren't named in the story.
* NotGoodWithRejection:
** This what drives [[spoiler:Claude to shoot himself dead after learning that Sirène dumps him for his older brother]].
** Similarly, [[spoiler: Louis went nuts when he learned that his lover, Auguste, was sleeping with his older sister Cecilia. He then burned down the place where they met and killed them both.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Claude's mother is a good person but is ''completely'' unprepared to handle Claude's situation. Claude's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, letting Claude dress and act as he likes instead of trying to force him to be someone he's not. That said, Auguste has his own personal issues that he's not dealing with, mainly that being [[spoiler:his affairs with Louis and his sister, Cecelia]]. %%stopped here
* ParentalFavoritism: Auguste favored Claude among his children because he was the one most similar to himself. Claude is said to be pretty much the "second coming" of Auguste.

%%* ProperLady: Cecilia is young woman

* TransRelationshipTroubles: Claude's relationship with Maura is interfered with because it's seen as same-sex and thus inappropriate. Cecilia rejects him because she sees him as "a girl".

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claude and Cecilia, not knowing that Louis was Auguste's first lover. Louis snaps massively, setting a gamekeeper's hut holding Auguste and Ceclia on fire. The fire ends up killing them both, and leaves Rosemarie herself with severe burns on half of her face.

* {{Yandere}}: Louis had been having an affair with Auguste (Claude's father) for years, and when he finds out through Rosemarie that Auguste was cheating on him with Louis's sister, Cecilia, he ''completely'' flips out, setting fire to a hut while Auguste and Cecilia are still inside.

The psychiatrist won't be the only one: Claude's good looks, natural charisma, and gentlemanly demeanor will prove irresistible to multiple woman as he grows up into a young man. Four in particular- his childhood friend Rosemarie, the sweet maid Maura, the stunning librarian Cecilia, and the lovely ballerina Sirène- will show him how love can hurt as much as heal.

The psychiatrist won't be the only one: Claude's good looks, natural charisma, and gentlemanly demeanor will prove irresistible to multiple woman as he grows up into a young man. Three in particular- the sweet maid Maura, the stunning librarian Cecilia, and the lovely ballerina Sirène- will show him how love can hurt as much as heal.

* LoveHurts: Claude's love affairs all end up badly. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home. (Then again, her dad had just died so she had to go anyway).]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claude as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirène? [[spoiler: She chooses Claude's eldest brother Andre over him... and then Claude offs himself.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Claude's mother, who is a good person but is ''completely'' unprepared to handle Claude's situation. Claude's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, [[spoiler: though he has his own issues... ''especially'' in regards to Cecilia and Louis.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: Auguste favored Claude among his children because he was the one more similar to himself. Claude is said to be pretty much the "second coming" of Auguste.

%%* ProperLady: Madame Montesse, and also Cecilia. Rosemarie seems to have grown into one by the end of the series.
* RuleOfThree: Claude falls in love with [[spoiler: and loses]] three women.
%%* ShoujoDemographic
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler: Claude gives one to Maura when she's grieving over her father's sudden death. Claude's mom catches them and they have a huge fight, which leads to Claude going to the doctor for the second time.]]
* SleepCute: A very fatigued and cold Maura falls asleep on Claude's shoulder right after arriving to the Montesse home in a rainy day.
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Claude kills himself]] on a snowy night. It's still snowing when [[spoiler:Rosemarie visits his grave]].
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler:What specifically pushes Claude into shooting himself dead is how Sirène, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Claude's brothers Andre, Edouard, and Thomas. Unlike their younger brother, they have dark hair and multiple women are attracted to them
* TransEqualsGay: Played with. Claude is a transgender man only attracted to women, but the story is very explicit that he is a heterosexual man, not a ButchLesbian.

* TransTribulations: While a lot of Claude's issues are directly caused by his turbulent love-life, the fact that he's seen by others as a masculine woman instead of the man he is definitely exacerbates these issues. In the end, something that [[spoiler:contributed towards [[SpurnedIntoSuicide his suicide]]]] is a phone call he has with his psychologist, who tries to assure him by saying that he's a man, and very masculine at that - something that Claude interprets as him being "an imperfect man".
* UnrequitedLove: Claude, towards Cecilia. Rosemarie, for Claude.
%%* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Claude meets [[spoiler: Louis]], who mistakes him for a cis boy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claude 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 on half of her face.]]
%%* UptownGirl: Claude finds himself as a gender-inversion, when he falls for the maid Maura.
%%* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Louis, who once was Auguste's lover... and ends up killing Auguste ''and'' his sister Cecilia.]]

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The psychiatrist won't be the only one: Claude's good looks, natural charisma, and gentlemanly demeanor will prove irresistible to multiple woman as he grows up into a young man. Three in particular- the sweet maid Maura, the stunning librarian Cecilia, and the lovely lady Sirène- will show him how love can hurt as much as heal.

''Claudine'' (クローディーヌ...!, ''Kurōdīnu...!'', "Claudine...!") is a 1978 {{shojo}} manga by Creator/RiyokoIkeda. It was serialized in ''Weekly Margaret'' in January 1978 before being released as a single volume later that same year. An English translation was published in 2018 by Seven Seas Entertainment. The manga is notable for being one of the first (if not ''the'' first) manga to feature an explicitly transgender character, as well as explore transgender related issues.

Claude de Montesse is a transman living in 20th century France. Born in a woman's body, he was assumed female at birth and thus given the feminine name Claudine. It wasn't until he was eight that he began to dress in traditional masculine clothing and inform everyone that he was really a boy. While his father respected this, Claude's mother insisted on taking him to a psychiatrist. Claude would later develop something of a friendship with the psychiatrist, who would take a deep interest in the young boy.

[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ClaudineManga_6379.jpg]]

''Claudine...!'' (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīnu...!) is a classic {{shojo}} manga set in the turn of early 20th century France. It was written by Creator/RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. The manga was licensed in English in 2018 by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray someone as {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}}.

The protagonist's birth name is Claudine de Montesse, otherwise known as Claude, a noble, regal, and extremely romantic young man. He is a transgender man and struggles to reconcile his conception of himself with being born female. Born to a French noble family, he is aware of the fact he is a boy and shares a special father and son bond with his dad to whom he has the most resemblance of all his brothers; when he's ten years old, his well-intentioned but ignorant mother then takes him to a doctor. Claude reveals the nature of his life, the doctor comes to respect and understand him, and then we start to see how the complicated and tragic events of Claude's life begin to develop from the beginning to the end of the story.

'''Note''': Claude presents as male in story, and will be referred to as such in TVT-land.

!!"Claudine...!" includes the following tropes:

* ChekhovsGunman: 15-year-old Claude 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]].

* IdiotBall: The last chapter is full of this,practically all surrounding Claude begin to behave like assholes. Sirene changes Claude with his brother, the brother himself without any emotions tells him "I forgave her this sin, because you're the girl", after which the psychiatrist technically finishes our main character, suggesting that he is "the wrong male."

* LoveDodecahedron: Claude 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 Claude's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cecilia]]. Rosemarie is in love with Claude since they were kids, is jealous of Claude and Cecilia and serves as an {{Unwitting|InstigatorOfDoom}} ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or perhaps intentional]]) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom 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.
* LoveHurts: Claude's love affairs all end up badly. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home. (Then again, her dad had just died so she had to go anyway).]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claude as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claude's eldest brother Andre over him... and then Claude offs himself.]]

** This what drives [[spoiler:Claude to shoot himself dead after learning that Sirene dumps him for his older brother]].

* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler:What specifically pushes Claude into shooting himself dead is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.]]

%%* BrokenBird: Claude is mentally configured as male but born with female reproductive organs.

%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Claude's brothers Andre, Edouard, and Thomas.

* BuryYourGays: Claude dies at the end of the story.

* SleepCute: A very fatigated and cold Maura falls asleep on Claude's shoulder right after arriving to the Montesse home in a rainy day.

%%* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Claude meets [[spoiler: Louis]], who mistakes him for a full-bodied boy.

%%* BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans-people: [[spoiler:Claude.]]

%%* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques, and Claude.

%%* NoNameGiven: The Doctor, Claude's mom

* TransEqualsGay: Played with. Claude is a transgender man only attracted to women, but the story is very explicit that he is a hetero man, not a ButchLesbian.

''Claudine...!'' (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīnu...!) is a classic {{shojo}} manga set in the turn of early 20th century France. It was written by Creator/RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray someone as {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}}.

%%* ComingOfAgeStory: [[spoiler: With a DownerEnding, however.]]

%%* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Poor, ''poor'' Claude.]]

%%* DownerEnding