[Fan Fiction] L'Arabesque de Scène

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Title: L'Arabesque de Scène
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Genre(s): Drama/Romance/Humor
Word Count: 4111
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13 for adventurous sexuality, gender issues, and sensitive subjects
Character(s)|Pairing(s): America, Canada, (Émile Loubet), England, France, (King Edward VII) | England/France
Summary: For the second challenge cycle at what_the_fruk. In an era when gentlemen are gentlemen and ladies are ladies, Francis Bonnefoy sticks out worse than a sore thumb. Arthur Kirkland only begins to realize the extent of Francis's personal situation in the December following their marriage under the Entente Cordiale in early August of 1904.

(Gender has long been seen as solely a woman's problem. After all, the woman is the other, the victim, the downtrodden. But man is gendered, too. And, thus, if we are to ask ourselves the question of what is a woman, then we also must ask ourselves what is a man?)