# Telèsphore Baquette — Short Fiction character guide

> Telèsphore Baquette in Short Fiction by Kate Chopin.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Telèsphore, Nonc Telèsphore

**First appearance:** 0043-az-lie

## Who they are

A good-natured farmer whose patient courtship of Euphrasie complicates the romantic triangle that unsettles the Natchitoches countryside.

## In the story

### [Tante Cat'rinette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_33_se/chapters/tante-cat-rinette)

Eusèbe, the 'free mulatto' who brings news of Miss Kitty's illness to Tante Cat'rinette.

### [A Night in Acadie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_33_se/chapters/a-night-in-acadie)

A twenty-eight-year-old farmer seeking a wife, who leaves his plantation to spend Sunday near Marksville and becomes entangled with Zaïda's elopement.

## Links

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