The Village de Lioncourt is under the protection and patronage of the Marquis de Lioncourt, who resides in Château de Lioncourt, farther up the Massif Central in Avignon, France. In the mid-eighteenth century, during the life of Lestat de Lioncourt, the village consists of several shops: a tailor, butcher, bakery, cheese maker’s, draper’s, and several more. Shop owners reside above their stores in small apartments with their families, such as Nicolas de Lenfent, who lives above the draper’s shop with his father. A Roman Catholic church is the central point of the village. Near the village is the Witches’ Place, a grove where several women accused of witchcraft were burned to death many years before Lestat was born. After Lestat becomes a vampire, the village falls into ruin when the French Revolution incites villagers to revolt against the Marquis de Lioncourt and plunder Château de Lioncourt.
When Lestat returns to the village in the twenty-first century during the renovations to Château de Lioncourt, he decides to also fund the restoration of the Village de Lioncourt.
The Village de Lioncourt appears in The Vampire Lestat (1985), Prince Lestat (2014), Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016), and Blood Communion (2018). For more perspectives on the Village de Lioncourt in the Vampire Chronicles, read the Alphabettery entries Château de Lioncourt, Lestat de Lioncourt, Nicolas de Lenfent, and Witches’ Place.