Tyrcis

Family: allegorical shepherds · Role: shepherd · First appears: Chapter 56

Life events

Tyrcis possesses extensive domains inherited from his parents.(Chapter56 · 📍 Fontainebleau)
- “Tyrcis, the owner of extensive domains transmitted to him from his parents, by right of inheritance.”
Madame reveals that two curious shepherds were mystified by three shepherdesses' staged declarations.(Chapter57)
- With: Madame
- “Two shepherds, full of curiosity, even indiscreetly so, have allowed themselves to be mystified in a most amusing manner by three nymphs, or three shepherdesses,”

with Amyntas (interaction) “Tyrcis,” said the comte, “had a faithful companion, or rather a devoted servant, whose name was--Amyntas.”
friends with Amyntas “if, sometimes, the illustrious hero--“Illustrious shepherd, you mean?” said Madame, pretending to correct M. de Saint-Aignan. “Your royal highness is right; I was mistaken,” returned the courtier; “if, I say, the shepherd Tyrcis deigns occasionally to call Amyntas his friend”

courtship with La Vallière (Galatea's praise of Tyrcis is presented as a declaration of romantic preference.) “neither Amyntas, nor Alphesiboeus, nor Tityrus, nor indeed any of the handsomest shepherds of the country, were to be compared to Tyrcis; that Tyrcis was as superior to all other men, as the oak to all other trees, as the lily in its majesty to all other flowers.”

Extracted from the original text of Ten Years Later. Made with Rho MD.