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Lestat is not just another French name. Lestat de Lioncourt is the fictional vampire in Anne Rice's *Vampire Chronicles*.
Rice probably concocted the name from the Old French "l'estat" meaning "status, state or condition of life".
Rice probably concocted the name from the Old French "l'estat" meaning "status, state or condition of life".
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I understant that Lestat was a character from Anne Rice's novel "Vampire Chronicles", but he is also a character in her other novel "Queen of the Damned." These charcters do not have much in common, except that they are Vampires. What I don't understand is why an author would have two seperate characters with the same name unless there was some other meaning. I wish that someone could explain the significance.