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Lestat de lioncourt biography of mahatma
Lestat de Lioncourt
Fictional character created by Anne Rice
Fictional character
Lestat de Lioncourt (French:[lɛstatdəljɔ̃kuʁ]) is a fictional character from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles novel series.
Born in the mid 1700s, Lestat is an immortal vampire and the antihero of the franchise.
Publication history
Lestat is introduced in Rice's 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire, the first book of what would become The Vampire Chronicles.[1] His full backstory is explored in The Vampire Lestat (1985), which follows Lestat's exploits from his youth in the Auvergne region of France to his early years as a vampire fledgling.[2] Lestat is the lead character in most novels in the main series, including The Queen of the Damned (1988), The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), Memnoch the Devil (1995), and Blood Canticle (2003).
Rice later revisited the Lestat-centric series, starting with Prince Lestat (2014),[3] followed by