Louis Grenier
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Louis Grenier
Sort Name:
Grenier, Louis
AKA:
The Old Frenchman
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Planter
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Grenier is a "Huguenot younger son who brings the first slaves into the country and is granted the first big land patent and so became the first cotton planter" (202). Even after he and his name are almost entirely forgotten, he remains a part of the landscape of Yoknapatawpha: he is the 'Old Frenchman' from whom the locality of Frenchman's Bend derives its name, and the decaying big house of his antebellum plantation (the Old Frenchman's place) plays important roles in several fictions.
Note:
Grenier first appears in a Faulkner narrative in "Hand Upon the Waters," where his last descendant, Lonnie Grinnup, is the murder victim.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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