The 1700s
October 4, 1766
Louis' mortal birthday. Born in France. City unknown.
1770s
The Pointe du Lac family immigrates to Louisianna due to a land grant.
Monsieur de Pointe du Lac establishes an indigo plantation and titles it
Pointe du Lac. He dies when Louis is of a very young age, leaving Louis to
be master of the plantation and head of the family.
1791
Louis' brother Paul sees visions from God and spends most of his time
in the oratory that Louis built for him. Paul persuades Louis to sell the
plantation and follow his visions. Louis refuses, an arguement occurs and
Paul leaves, falling down the stairs, breaking his neck and dies. The
authorities are called in whereby his mother blames Louis for the murder
of Paul. Louis, then, moves the entire family to New Orleans whereby he
goes into a drunken state with endless nights of gambling and various
prosititutes in hopes of death.
March 2, 1791
One drunken night, Louis is about to be killed by someone who was to
rob him, he is intervened by Lestat de Lioncourt who drinks him dry. He is
found in a delirium by his sister.
March 3, 1791
Lestat pays Louis a visit in his room. There he offers him the Dark
Gift. Louis spends the entire evening considering it. On this night, Louis
saw his last sunrise.
March 4, 1791
Louis meets Lestat at the Pointe du Lac plantation. There Lestat makes
him kill the overseer to prove he is worthy of the Gift. Lestat then makes
Louis into a vampire.
1791 - 1794
Lestat, Louis and Lestat's blind father live together at Pointe du Lac.
Repulsed by Lestat's brash behavior and the need to drink mortal blood,
Louis decides to drink from animals. Louis meets and falls in love with
Babette Freniere, giving her words of advice. When Lestat kills the
Babette's brother and only male of the family, Louis gives Babette advice
into how to take control of the Freniere plantation without a man. Louis'
mother dies. Louis does not attend the funeral, claiming he had come down
with malaria. Louis' sister also marries.
1794
Lestat and Louis driven out of Pointe du Lac by slaves who believe
their masters are the devil. Louis kills Lestat's father upon his request
and burns down Pointe du Lac. They goto Babette to hide. Babette sees
Louis as a vampire and calls him the Satan. She then goes insane. Louis's
sister assumes his death. The next night, Lestat and Louis move to New
Orleans and live in a Spanish Hotel. There Lestat playfully drinks from
two prostitutes which sicken Louis, causing him to leave. He then finds
Claudia and drinks from her. Lestat finds him and heckles him for giving
in. Louis leaves in a fury, leaving Claudia half dead. Lestat brings Louis
to the hospital where Claudia is then taken to the Spanish Hotel. There,
Lestat persuades Louis to finish drinking from her which he does. Lestat
then makes Claudia into a vampire.
1795
Louis, Lestat, and Claudia live at the townhouse on Rue Royal.
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The 1800s
1862
Claudia's hatred for Lestat grows as she matures into the mind of a
young woman. She questions her existence whereby Louis brings her to where
he found her. He tells her about the evening of her birth. Louis and
Claudia plan to leave. As Louis prepares by signing Rue Royale and several
construction companies over to Lestat, Claudia plots Lestat's death. She
feeds him two dead boys and then plunges a knife into his throat, gashing
it open. Louis helps Claudia take Lestat's body to the Bayou Swamp. About
to leave for Eastern Europe to find more their kind, Lestat returns with
the musician that Lestat had made into a vampire. Louis throws a lantern
at Lestat, burning him and the Rue Royale Townhouse. They esape by boat to
Eastern Europe. In Eastern Europe, they meet vampires who are nothing more
than mindless corpses. They goto Paris, where they meet the Theater of the
Vampires and Armand. Louis falls in love with Armand and plans to leave
with him. Out of pressure, Louis makes Madeleine into a vampire so that
Claudia will have someone to care for her. They live together in the hotel
until the Theater of the Vampires come and take them away. They condemn
them for the murder of Lestat, who appears to lay blame on Claudia.
Claudia and Madeleine are placed into a chamber where they are killed by
the sun. Louis is enclosed in a coffin and buried into the wall. The next
evening, Armand frees Louis who runs back to the Theater and finds Lestat
holding Claudia's bloodied yellow dress and Claudia's ashes. From revenge,
Louis plans the killing of the entire Theater, except Armand. He enters
near day break, with a scythe and burning the Theater down.
1863
Armand and Louis travel around the world and return to New Orleans
where they part.
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The 1900s
1900s
Louis follows a baby stealing vampire and finds Lestat in New Orleans,
weak and insane. Lestat begs Louis not to go but Louis leaves, never to
see him again.
1975
Moves to San Francisco where he tells his life story to Daniel Malloy
at the house on Divisadero Street.
1976
Interview with the Vampire is published.
October 30, 1985
The Vampire Lestat is published. Louis reads it and reunites
with Lestat on the eve of Lestat's rock concert.
October 31, 1985
Louis goes with Lestat to Lestat's rock concert. Vampires attack them
and they are saved by Gabrielle. Akasha arrives and kills all vampires
except for the ones that Lestat loves and the Children of the Millennium.
Louis and the vampires gather at the Sonoma Compound where they listen to
Maharet tell the history of their exisitence. Akasha arrives and Louis
speaks out against her. Mekare arrives and kills Akasha, eating her brain
while Maharet eats her heart, making them the new Queens of the Damned.
1985 to 1990
The vampires live together at Armand's Night Island. Louis, after
listening to Jesse's meeting with Claudia's ghost, leaves for New Orleans
in search of her. Lestat finds him at the Rue Royale Townhouse. They go
for a walk to Louis' tomb. Then Lestat takes Louis on a flight around the
world, ending up in London where Lestat meets David. Louis is in the
shadows.
1988
Queen of the Damned is published.
1990s
Move back to New Orleans and lives in a cottage behind an uptown
Victorian mansion.
1991
Lestat tells Louis about Raglan James and his offer to make him mortal
again. Louis warns not to do it. When Lestat does become mortal and
realize he is tricked, he begs Louis to make him immortal again so he can
go after Raglan and get his body back. Louis refuses. In a rage, Lestat
burns Louis' house down. When Lestat regains his body back, he rebuilds
the Rue Royale Townhouse and invites Louis to live with him which he
accepts. After David is made into vampire, David goes to Louis for advice.
The three of them live together at Rue Royale.
1992
The Tale of the Body Thief is published.
1993
Louis returns to Paris where he is with Armand.
1994
Louis returns to New Orleans to comfort Lestat after hearing about
Veronica's Veil from the news. He brings Lestat to St. Elizabeth's where
Lestat goes mad after seeing his eye returned. Louis begs Maharet not to
chain Lestat. He then reads to Lestat in his cell and conforts him.
November 11, 1994
Interview with the Vampire (the movie) opens in theaters. Brad
Pitt portrays Louis.
1995
Memnoch the Devil is published.
1998
Pandora--The New Tales of The Vampires is published.
1998
The Vampire Armand is published.
1999
David asks Merrick to raise the ghost of Claudia for Louis. In a
seance, Louis offers himself as the blood sacrifice along with a small
locket with Claudia's only photograph in it. The ghost of Claudia tells
him that he was used and that she never loved him. Louis also falls in
love with Merrick Mayfair, who he later makes her his fledgling. After the
Dark Gift is given, Louis places himself out into the sun to die, only to
not be turned to ashes but coal. Lestat wakens and gives Louis his blood,
along with David and Merrick, to save him. Louis and Lestat also undergo a
blood exchange and now Louis has Lestat's strong blood within him. The
Talamasca demand the return of Merrick, thus, forcing Lestat, Louis, David
and Merrick to leave New Orleans to an unknown destination.
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2000
Merrick is published.
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