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- Setting: Provence, France, 1904
- Character: Germaine Marie Dupont, b. 1874
- Education & Occupation: Mentorship by M. Blanchet at Aix-Marseille University. (Formerly an) author.
- Talents and skills: Language and writing, debate and the piano.
- Summary: After their parents' demise in a tragic carriage accident ten years prior, Germaine has been under legal guardianship of her five years older brother, Alain. He's a politician in the city council of Marseille and wants to advance, but the negative attention his sister gets for being unmarried and writing "unseemly" material works against him. Rather than trying to find a fiancé for her, he has forbidden her to publish anything more and made a contract with her publisher that he will pay double what they could earn on her to ensure that her books don't reach the literary circles. Germaine is devoted to her work, since it's the only place where she feels connected to her true self and can honestly express herself, so although she has been stonewalled by Alain, she keeps an active diary. She still has a small, devoted following, despite the fact that her writing style is dated and her views radical - and now, that she can't get anything else printed anywhere.
- Relationships: When she was a teenager, Germaine had a bosom friend, Raquel, whom she was very close to and eventually fell in love with. Upon disclosing her feelings for the other girl, Raquel immediately broke off their relation and has since then gotten married. It's a heartbreak Germaine still hasn't recovered from and emphasizes her feeling of being otherly and different. Alain knows about her inclinations, though they never openly address it. Neither does she ever acknowledge his forbidden passion for her, the feelings that make him resist the idea of her marrying, since he wants her to stay with him (and his wife, Jeanne) at the château.