Grenier Plantation|Old Frenchman Place in The Mansion (Location)

The "Old Frenchman place" is the antebellum plantation after which Frenchman's Bend is named. Although no characters ever seem to remember the name of the man who built it, in several other texts the narrative identifies his as Louis Grenier. Before the Civil War it was one of the largest and most prosperous plantations in Yoknapatawpha, but its owner and almost all his family disappeared during the war and the house began falling into decay. In this novel it is mentioned as part of the dowry that came to Flem Snopes when he married Eula Varner (5), and the ruined "rose garden" on the property figures as the site where Flem buried "them sixty silver dollars" that baited the trap that Ratliff, Armstid and Bookwright fell into (141).