Her noble elite family is a french upper-class bourgeois household on the verge of decline in industrializing Paris during the early 20th century. What started as just a hobby turned into a serious pursuit of becoming a professional ballet dancer due to her own talent and hard work, as well as her family's financial troubles. Her parents cling to the notion of being a prestigious family, but their debts keep piling up, and their assets dwindle year by year. She has high pride, but that's probably rooted in the sense that this is the only thing she has left to hold onto. And that pride doesn't stop at the personal level— it extends to the very essence of French ballet. It's not that there's no racial prejudice in that era—that would be a lie—but she believes that losing talented people to it would be an even greater loss for French ballet. She's bad at expressing her emotions openly. Second only to Anne in that regard.