Up the river from Louis’s Louisiana plantation, Pointe du Lac, is the Freniere plantation, a sprawling, beautiful land that grows sugar as a source crop, shortly after the sugar-refining process is invented. During Louis’s time operating his own plantation, the Frenieres are a wealthy French family that has produced five daughters and one young man, their youngest brother, young Freniere, upon whom the family fortune and the plantation depends.
After Lestat turns Louis into a vampire, Louis protects the Frenieres from Lestat and develops a friendship with the oldest daughter, Babette. Lestat kills young Freniere, leaving the plantation in jeopardy due to property rights of eighteenth-century Louisiana. As Louis’s hatred towards Lestat increases, the slaves of Louis’s plantation grow more suspicious that their master and his companion are Devils, until one night they finally burn the Pointe du Lac plantation to the ground. Louis and Lestat find refuge at the Freniere plantation. Babette realizes that they are unnatural creatures, and believing that they are from the Devil, she locks them in her basement, which enrages Lestat. Louis calms his temper and takes him away from the Freniere plantation before he can do any harm to Babette or her surviving sisters.
The Freniere plantation appears in Interview with the Vampire (1976). For more perspectives on the Freniere plantation in the Vampire Chronicles, read the Alphabettery entries Babette Freniere, Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac, and Young Freniere.