After Lestat is turned into a vampire and inherits Magnus’s great fortune, which is mostly in gems, he seeks the assistance of a mortal who can help manage his finances. He finds the lawyer Pierre Roget in the Marais district in Paris. Lestat believes him to be clever and industrious but also greedy enough to assist him in accomplishing anything for the right cost. Lestat never reveals his vampire nature to Roget, but instead tells him that he is the husband of an heiress from Saint-Domingue. Roget helps Lestat exchange his highly valuable gems for currency. He also makes sure that Roget sends money back to his family in the Auvergne.
Through Roget’s efforts, Lestat also becomes a benefactor to his mortal companion Nicolas “Nicki” de Lenfent, and to their old acting troupe at Renaud’s House of Thesbians. When Lestat’s mother, Gabrielle, moves to Paris from the Auvergne because she is dying, Roget cares for her. As the French Revolution is quickly approaching, Roget quite cunningly moves all of Lestat’s finances out of France and into foreign banks. Lestat moves away from Paris after he nearly reveals his vampire nature to the audience at Renaud’s House of Thesbians, and he depends on Roget to keep him informed of matters in Paris and the Auvergne. As the French Revolution in its nascence is beginning to sweep through the Parisian streets, Lestat hears less and less from Roget, and sometimes wonders why he stops receiving messages from Pierre Roget’s little home in Marais. The fate of Pierre remains unknown.
Pierre Roget appears in The Vampire Lestat (1985). For more perspectives on his character, read the Alphabettery entries Gabrielle, Lestat de Lioncourt, Magnus, Nicolas de Lenfent, and Renaud’s House of Thesbians.