Louis de Pointe du Lac is a fictional character in The Vampire Chronicles novels written by Anne Rice. He began his life as a mortal man, and later became a vampire. He is the protagonist and antihero of Interview with the Vampire, the first of the The Vampire Chronicles. He also features in The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch The Devil all written by Lestat and The Vampire Armand and Merrick by David ...
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Louis de Pointe du Lac is a fictional character in The Vampire Chronicles novels written by Anne Rice. He began his life as a mortal man, and later became a vampire. He is the protagonist and antihero of Interview with the Vampire, the first of the The Vampire Chronicles. He also features in The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch The Devil all written by Lestat and The Vampire Armand and Merrick by David Talbot.
Louis de Pointe du Lac was born in France on October 4, 1766, to a Roman Catholic family who emigrated to North America when he was very young. His mother, sister and brother, Paul, lived just outside New Orleans on one of their two indigo plantations, named Pointe du Lac after the family. This was the place where Louis' brother died, after a terrible quarrel with Louis. Louis had always thought that he was to blame and never got over the guilt of his brother's death. He became self-destructive, cynical and desperate, and longed for...
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