He’s the one who feeds her and invites her to be their guest. (I HAD TO)
LOL 😉
If you read the character summary for him on the Disney Wikia, I could see them taking his traits but twisting it around to make him part of the French household instead…
Lumière is a kind-hearted, yet rebellious, servant of the Beast. He has a habit of disobeying his master’s rules that results in controversy, but after Belle, he is arguably the Beast’s closest friend, demonstrated when the Beast often turns to Lumière and no one else for advice. His free-spirited and rebellious personality also often puts a severe strain on his friendship with Cogsworth, whom prefers to abide strictly by his master’s rules so as to avoid any trouble for himself and anyone else, but as shown many times in the game and film series, he values Cogsworth like a brother.
Maybe he was sort of an uncle figure to Belle, either biologically or just a close friend of Mo’s, and maybe he helped to raise her after her mother died. Maybe “Uncle Lou” is where Belle gets her rebel side from. He’d encourage her to think big, and Mo would scold him for putting ideas in her head.
We never got any news about who had been cast as Lumiere, did we?