Louis Grenier

Fictional character created by William Faulkner

Louis Grenier is a fictional character in William Faulkner's novels and stories.

Grenier (died 1837), a French Huguenot architect and dilettante came, around 1800, with Dr. Samuel Habersham and Alexander Holston to the settlement which would later become Jefferson. Grenier was a student at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He bought land in the southeastern part of Yoknapatawpha County and established the first cotton plantation and had the first slaves in that part of the state. His slaves straightened a nearly ten-mile stretch of the Yoknapatawpha River to prevent flooding, according to The Hamlet. His house later became known as the Old Frenchman's Place, and the small settlement as Frenchman's Bend.

His last living descendant was known as "Lonnie Grinnup", a feeble-minded man in his middle thirties sometime around the first quarter of the twentieth century, although his real name was the same as that of his first Yoknapatawpha County ancestor.

Louis Grenier appears in Requiem for a Nun and is referred to in Intruder in the Dust, Hand Upon the Waters, The Town, and The Reivers. In addition, a character named "Grenier Weddel" appears in The Town.[citation needed]

## References

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* Kirk, Robert W.; Klotz, Marvin (1965). Faulkner's People: A complete guide and index to the characters and fiction of William Faulkner. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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Novels|

* Soldiers' Pay (1926)
* Mosquitoes (1927)
* Sartoris / Flags in the Dust (1929 / 1973)
* The Sound and the Fury (1929)
* As I Lay Dying (1930)
* Sanctuary (1931)
* Light in August (1932)
* Pylon (1935)
* Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
* The Unvanquished (1938)
* If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939)
* The Hamlet (1940)
* Go Down, Moses (1942)
* Intruder in the Dust (1948)
* Requiem for a Nun (1951)
* A Fable (1954)
* The Town (1957)
* The Mansion (1959)
* The Reivers (1962)

Short story
collections|

* These 13 (1931)
* Knight's Gambit (1949)
* Collected Stories (1950)

Short stories|

* "Landing in Luck" (1919)
* "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
* "Red Leaves" (1930)
* "Dry September" (1931)
* "Spotted Horses" (1931)
* "That Evening Sun" (1931)
* "Mountain Victory" (1932)
* "Barn Burning" (1939)
* "The Tall Men" (1941)
* "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)

Screenplays|

* Flesh (1932)
* Today We Live (1933)
* Submarine Patrol (1938)
* To Have and Have Not (1944)
* The Big Sleep (1945)

Children's books|

* The Wishing Tree (1927)

Related|

* William Clark Falkner (great-grandfather)
* Rowan Oak home
* Papers and manuscripts
* William Faulkner Foundation
* Yoknapatawpha County
* Compson family
* Quentin Compson
* Louis Grenier
* Ikkemotubbe
* Gavin Stevens
* Thomas Sutpen
* Snopes trilogy
* Southern Renaissance
* Faux Faulkner contest
* PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
* Fiction, Film, and Faulkner

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