Old Frenchman
Character Key:
Display Name:
Old Frenchman
Sort Name:
Unnamed Old Frenchman
AKA:
Louis Grenier
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Planter
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
The man who built "the Old Frenchman's place" as one of the earliest plantations in Yoknapatawpha history is not named in this story; in other texts he is identified as Louis Grenier. It is from him that the Frenchman's Bend area of the county gets its name, and he owned enough slaves to "straighten the river bed" past his "four thousand acres" of land (136), but he himself never appears directly in any Faulkner text, and although two late novels mention that a descendant of his, named Grinnup, still lives in the area of the plantation, after the Civil War the family seems to have essentially disappeared.
Property Status:
owns land
owns house
owns slaves
owns business
Financial Status:
controls substantial wealth
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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