Lestat de lioncourt biography of william shakespeare

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Lestat de Lioncourt(pronounced les-tät with a rather Frenchflair, according to Blackwood Farmand Blood Canticleand page 151 in Memnoch the Devil) is a fictional characterappearing in several novelsby Anne Rice, including The Vampire Lestat.

Lestat de lioncourt biography of william shakespeare in 400 words

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

Lestat is the seventh son of the marquis d'Auvergne and was born in 1760, in Auvergne, France in a castle belonging to his ancestors.

Despite his apparent highborn background he grew up in relative poverty; his ancestors squandered the family riches. As the youngest in the family, Lestat stood to inherit nothing.

Perhaps the most pivotal moment in his mortal life was when the towns people came to him about the wolves coming into the village frightening all the people.

In this encounter he was nearly killed by the pac