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Subject: I love to Count (Bwahahaha!!!)
Author: Pavlos   (guest, 194.30.220.167)
Date: February 9, 2003 at 10:03:21 AM
Reply to: meaning of Lestat by Saria
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".

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