Louis Grenier
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Louis Grenier
Sort Name:
Grenier, Louis
AKA:
Old Frenchman
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dies
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Plantation Owner
Other Texts:
Biography:
Grenier was a "Huguenot younger son who brought the first slaves into the country and was granted the first big land patent and so became the first cotton planter" (6-7). Grenier first appears by name in a Faulkner narrative in "Hand Upon the Waters" (1939), but plays an even larger role in the Yoknapatawpha fictions as the "Old Frenchman" after whom Frenchman's Bend is named.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Tuesday, January 1, 1833 to Tuesday, December 31, 1833
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