Unnamed French Chevalier

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Sun, 2018-05-20 07:52
Text: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Character Key: 
Chevalier Soeur-Blonde de Vitry
Display Name: 
Unnamed French Chevalier
Sort Name: 
Unnamed French Chevalier
AKA: 
Chevalier Soeur Blonde de Vitry
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Compson Place in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Courtship"
"A Justice"
"Red Leaves"
"The Old People"
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

This displaced aristocrat, "a Chevalier of France" who was "born too late" to be one of Napoleon's marshals, calls his "fosterbrother" Ikkemotubbe "Du Homme" - from which comes the chief's new name, "Doom" (325). The "Appendix" does not explain his relationship with Ikkemotubbe; that story that is more fully described "Red Leaves" and Go Down, Moses. "Chevaliers" held a minor aristocratic rank in pre-Revolutionary France, and bring to the "Appendix" a precedent of aristocracy laced with decadence.

Note: 
CUT: Here, as in "Red Leaves," Ikkemotubbe's "fosterbrother," the chevalier, renames Ikkemotubbe. The chevalier makes Ikkemotubbe's ambition and power comprehensible in the languages of Europe as "d'homme" or "Doom." As we learn in <em>Go Down, Moses</em>, Ikkemotubbe meets the chevalier in New Orleans.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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