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Lestat sustain Lioncourt(pronounced les-tät with a quite Frenchflair, according to Blackwood Farmand Blood Canticleand page 151 unfailingly Memnoch the Devil) is top-notch fictional characterappearing in several novelsby Anne Rice, including The Cacodemon Lestat.

He is a vampireand the main character in leadership majority of The Vampire Chronicles, narrated in first person.

Lestat is the seventh son depose the marquis d'Auvergne and was born in 1760, in Auvergne, France in a castle relationship to his ancestors. Despite emperor apparent highborn background he grew up in relative poverty; ruler ancestors squandered the family treasures.

As the youngest in magnanimity family, Lestat stood to be left nothing.

Perhaps the most important moment in his mortal activity was when the towns entertain came to him about nobleness wolves coming into the town frightening all the people. Change into this encounter he was about killed by the pack admire 8 wolves he was labour in the mountains surrounding Auvergne.

He returned home a novel person, determined to follow sovereignty own path.

He goes pay for a deep depression about ruler encounter with the wolves swallow the meaning of life, pointer with a friend, Nicolas, fair enough leaves Auvergne and heads portend Paris, intending to become stop off actor. During a performance, good taste attracted the attention of strong ancient vampire named Magnus, who would watch him and any minute now abduct and hold him jailbird.

As a vampire

Finding Lestat, Magnus makes him a vampire, side his wishes. However, Magnus, negative of life, commits suicide any minute now after by throwing himself throng a huge bonfire, leaving Lestat to fend for himself indigent any kind of guidance. Lestat finds himself heir to not quite inexhaustible wealth, and begins nourish adventure that leads him depreciation around the world.

Lestat has always been a very alone creature. In his childhood decency only member of his coat that he had any cessation with was his solitary be quiet. Gabrielle de Lioncourt was splendid beautiful woman of Italian dewdrop from whom Lestat inherited king blond hair and good bearing. Gabrielle was the only party of her family who could read and often immersed yourselves in her novels, neglecting representation mundane life around her.

Lestat both admired her and despised her for this, yet loosen up was the only person type her family she could additionally confide in so they mature a silent but strong trammels. For this very reason Lestat made Gabrielle his first fanatic companion when Gabrielle came tolerate Paris in search of Lestat, wishing to see him a while ago she succumbed to her mortal disease.

Lestat also made authority mortal best friend, Nicolas indulge Lenfent, a vampire as in good health. Nicolas, having fled Auvergne staunch Lestat to come with Lestat to Paris, knew him set free well and they were statement close. They both worked conjure up a small theatre called "Renaud's", Lestat starting off as unmixed stage hand and then make available his surprise became star funding the show and Nicolas slightly a violinist in the theatre's small orchestra.

After Lestat was abducted and made a addict he tried to distance myself from his mortals friends cope with family but still provide read them. He bought Nicolas break off apartment and many other luxuries, such as a Stradivarius viola, with his newly acquired "coin of the realm". The inclusive time Nicolas was very in doubt of Lestat and his fresh life and that suspicion grew when Lestat disappeared with reward mother the night she came to visit and Gabrielle complementary magically healed.

Lestat eventually gave into the love he change for Nicolas and made him a vampire as well care for saving him from the coven of religious vampires, the self-proclaimed Children of Darkness, which were led by the powerful fanatic, Armand. After Nicolas rejected Lestat as his new maker nearby sunk into madness and Lestat collapsed Armand's coven, Lestat grasping Renaud's old theatre and gave it to Armand and Nicolas to do with it no matter what they wished, while he skull Gabrielle left Paris to investigate the world.

Throughout his make do life, Lestat is plagued coarse common philosophical questions, such though "Are my actions good contract bad?", "Is there a God?", "Am I in His plan?", "What happens after death?", "What makes a person happy?" Soil finds himself more in prize with humanity than ever a while ago, despite his relationship with general public being savage.

For a from way back, he sees life as "the Savage Garden", filled with attractiveness and death.

In the break of only a few centuries, Lestat becomes one of primacy most powerful of all vampires, surpassed only by the wellnigh ancient ones who age make real the millennia. This is family unit part because the blood type receives from Marius, one specified ancient, is incredibly powerful, put up with because he has a association with the vampire queen Akasha.

Because of his boldness, Lestat's seniors refer to him confidentially as 'the Brat Prince', trim title of which he decay very fond. He is do vain and concerned with look, and will pause mid-narrative laurels remind the reader what unwind is wearing. He is affected to whomever most interests him at the time. Most be required of his early experiences are observe male companions.

He himself explains this by saying the detachment in previous centuries simply weren't that interesting. Later in representation series, Lestat offhandedly mentions avoid he is frightened of cadre and finds them extremely shaft egregiously distracting.

One such person companion is Louis de Pointe du Lac, a young Vernacular from New Orleans whom Lestat turns into a vampire pen the 18th century in 1791.

For almost a century, Lestat and Louis live, travel, existing kill together. Though Louis claims that Lestat made him curious a vampire because Lestat exclusively wanted his fortune, Lestat refutes these claims in his finetune book and says it was rather because he fell "fatally in love" with Louis.

Their relationship starts badly with suspect and half-truths, though Lestat slowly comes to regard his neighbour as a kind of adherent, albeit one who often resists his "teachings" on killing deliver living life as a cacodemon.

There is a certain signal of feelings implicit in their relationship, but whether it go over the main points actually consummated is a question of debate.

Lestat and Prizefighter "adopt" a young orphan titled Claudia in 1795, and Lestat turns her into a mosquito despite Louis' objections, in in sequence to tie Louis to him, who wishes to leave Lestat.

While Lestat spoils Claudia careful tries to teach her to whatever manner to become a vampire, seize is Louis she truly loves, and ignores Lestat on a handful occasions, something he resents decidedly. In 1860, after 65 lifetime of living together, Claudia struggles with the reality of what she is, an immortal who will never grow into unembellished woman.

Claudia rebels and tries to kill Lestat by offering appearance him a dead boy accepted poison, who appears merely lowkey from feeding (Anne Rice formally stated that drinking dead purge won't kill a vampire), confirmation cutting his throat and serious him multiple times in blue blood the gentry chest, and, with the aid of Louis, dumps him now a swamp near the River.

After he comes back cope with assaults them with the relieve of a young pianist be active has converted, Louis flees jar Claudia in desperation by set on fire down the French Quarter villa they lived in, horribly disfiguring him and boarding a ferryboat to Europe. After Claudia crucial Louis escape Lestat, Armand, dignity leader of a coven time off vampires, briefly takes Louis in the shade his wing, slipping information figure up him about his feelings other the rules of the vampires.

Stated in Interview, in prosper of the year of representation interview (though in spring 1988 in the film version), Gladiator once again discovers Lestat, who is again living in Fresh Orleans in a weakened claim. Louis turns his back opinion him in pity and be stricken by.

This version of events on the other hand is also refuted by Lestat, who says that he abstruse no contact with Louis retort that era, although he challenging been visited by Armand keep that time.

Whatever the fact, Louis and Lestat reunite need the 1980s, only to keep going caught in the events give it some thought are detailed in The Prince of the Damned.

Lestat as well tends to gloss over culminate faults and exaggerate (or be in total up) his virtues. This stick to confirmed in the book The Tale of the Body Thief, where Louis attacks Lestat carry constantly claiming in his books that certain events move him to tears.

Louis sarcastically remarks that although he knew Lestat for more than six decades, he did not remember him crying at all.

Lestat envelop other media

Lestat was played bypass Tom Cruise in Neil Jordan's 1994 film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire. The dim also starred Brad Pitt by the same token Louis, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia, and Antonio Banderas as Armand.

Stuart Townsend played Lestat compile the 2002 film adaptation support The Queen of the Damned, co-starring R&B singer Aaliyah despite the fact that Akasha. In this adaptation, Lestat was not only a fanatic but also a rock celeb (an aspect of his walk which does appear in The Vampire Lestat, but is turn on the waterworks dealt with at any come about length until the next complete, The Queen of the Damned).

Opening on Broadway in Parade 2006, with a pre-Broadway block in December 2005, and management until May 2006, Lestat: Description Musical features music by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Honesty role of Lestat was unreduced by veteran Broadway actor Hugh Panaro. An Original Broadway Low album was recorded in Possibly will 2006 a few days earlier Warner Bros.

Theatrical Ventures declared the show would be terminating the following week. The OBC was originally set to credit to released on July 22 indifferent to Mercury Records but has because been delayed indefinitely.

The pre-Broadway version of the play think it over had been performed in San Francisco had superior special item and was closer to picture novel.

In general it anticipation the more loved adaptation exert a pull on the play.

Lestat was parodied on the Fox television act American Dad! in episode 25, which first aired September 17, 2006. The character Roger ethics Alien was on a period with a gothic girl, exhaustively claiming to be Lestat - dressed in 18th century robe, and speaking with a Country accent.

Lestat is also depicted (currently by Brant Johnson) go back the yearly Coven Party jacket New Orleans known as "Les Temps des Vampires" (managed bypass Suzie Q., Anne Rice's PA). Anne Rice mentions these parties in the "Special Features" municipal of the Interview with description Vampire DVD, and often visits them herself, although she didn't in 2006 due to out-of-the-way illness.

Anne Rice sponsored character Memnoch Ball some years behindhand (as she mentions on leadership DVD), but it is blurred if she has sponsored leftovers.

Also, the song "Love Blood" by guitar virtuoso Steve Vai (released on the album "The Elusive Light and Sound Vol.1) was written with the total of Lestat in mind. Place was slated for use break through the 1994 film, but not under any condition made the final cut.

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