Chevalier Soeur-Blonde de Vitry

Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2015-01-31 18:17
Text: 
"The Old People"
Character Key: 
Chevalier Soeur-Blonde de Vitry
Display Name: 
Chevalier Soeur-Blonde de Vitry
Sort Name: 
Soeur-Blonde de Vitry, Chevalier
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Chickasaw Steamboat Landing in "The Old People" (Location)
Home: 
New Orleans, Louisiana in "The Old People" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Courtship"
"A Justice"
"Appendix: Compson"
"Red Leaves"
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

In old France, the title "Chevalier" indicated that a man was noble and a member of an order of chivalry. In this story he is the "French companion" whom Ikkemotubbe meets on a trip to New Orleans. When Ikkemotubbe returns to the Chickasaw plantation in northern Yoknapatawpha, De Vitry comes with him. Not much is known about the Chevalier, although the narrator says that he "must have been the Ikkemotubbe of his family" (202) - in other words, the Frenchman probably lacked scruples but had plenty of ambition.

Ethnicity: 
French
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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