Louis Grenier

One of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the men "who had ridden horseback into the county before its boundaries had ever been surveyed and located and named" (73). Younger son of a Huguenot aristocrat, he owned thousands of acres along the Yoknapatawpha River before the Civil War. An amateur painter, an "elegante" and a "dilettante," he is the "Frenchman" after whom Frenchman's Bend is named. In other fictions his antebellum plantation's mansion house was designed by a French architect; in this text Grenier is a "Paris-educated architect" who built it himself (74).