Jean-Pierre & Agnes Vaillant

Jean-Pierre is Henri Vaillant’s first son and Michel’s older brother. A former race car driver, he abandonned competitive driving, feeling he was more useful at the factory than on the race track.

He thus became the team manager and, when his father retired, director of the Vaillante factories. He’s the one who selects and trains drivers.

In the very first album, Jean-Pierre is engaged to the lovely Agnès de Chanzy and becomes the father of a beautiful baby boy named Jean-Michel who becomes Michel’s godson.

Very demanding of himself (he does not hesitate to spend nights working and uses his time off to work on secret projects), he is also demanding with others: Steve and Julie have already suffered the consequences.

But even though he is extremely successful in his work, no one knows how much he misses the days when he was a race car driver: he has a passion for racing, competition, and technique.

He has ambitious projects galore, which only his father manages to subdue somewhat with financial arguments.

Michel Vaillant De Grote Match
Michel Vaillant: De gemaskerde racer
Michel Vaillant: Renbaan van de angst
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