What is "jean-claude"

Jean-Claude is a fictional character in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Within the novels, Jean-Claude's role is as one of the primary love interests of the series heroine, Anita Blake.

Jean-Claude is a French-born vampire who is over 400–600 years old. He was a favorite of Belle Morte for his eyes, and, like many vampires of Belle Morte's line, Jean-Claude was selected for his almost perfect mortal beauty. He arrived in St. Louis and, indeed, the United States itself to escape Belle Morte's court with the help of Augustine. Jean-Claude became the Master Vampire of St. Louis after Anita Blake killed Nikolaos. Together with Richard Zeeman, Jean-Claude is a member of Anita's first triumvirate.

Jean-Claude's daytime lair is the sub-basement of the Circus of the Damned. As owner of the "JC Corporation," he also owns and runs Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, and Danse Macabre, as well as other clubs.

Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Jean-Claude Ades, an Italian electronic music producer
• Jean-Claude Amiot (born 1939), a French composer, music professor and conductor
• Jean-Claude Andruet (born 1942), a retired French professional rally driver
• Jean-Claude Bajeux, a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Jean-Claude Baker, a French-born American restaurateur
• Jean-Claude Beaulieu (born 1944), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Bergeron (born 1968), a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• Jean-Claude Bertrand (born 1954), a retired French badminton player
• Jean-Claude Biver (born 1949), the CEO, board member and minority shareholder of Hublot
• Jean-Claude Blanc (born 1963), the former Chairman of Juventus FC
• Jean-Claude Borelly, a French trumpeter and composer
• Jean-Claude Bouchet (born 1957), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Bouttier (born 1944), a French actor and former European boxing champion
• Jean-Claude Bras (born 1945), a French former professional football player
• Jean-Claude Brialy (1933–2007), a French actor
• Jean-Claude Briault (born 1947), a New Caledonian politician
• Jean-Claude Brisseau (born 1944), a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things
• Jean-Claude Cameroun (born 1973), a Cameroonian judoka
• Jean-Claude Carle (born 1948), a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Carrière (born 1931), an award-winning screenwriter and actor
• Jean-Claude Castera (born 1939), a Haitian painter
• Jean-Claude Casties (born 1936), a French former professional football player
• Jean-Claude Chermann, a French virologist
• Jean-Claude Colin (1790–1875), a French priest who became the founder of the Society of Mary
• Jean-Claude Colliard (born 1946), a former member of the Constitutional Council of France
• Jean-Claude Colotti (born 1967), a French former professional road bicycle racer
• Jean-Claude D'Amours (born 1972), a Canadian politician
• Jean-Claude Danglot (born 1950), a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Darcheville (born 1975), a French football striker
• Jean-Claude Darouy (born 1944), a French rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Jean-Claude Dassier (born 1941), the president of Olympique de Marseille
• Jean-Claude Decaux (born 1938), a French entrepreneur who earned his fortune in advertising
• Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 1946), a French actor
• Jean-Claude Drouot (born 1938), a Belgian actor
• Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957), a French science fiction writer
• Jean-Claude Duvalier (born 1951), the ruler of Haiti from 1971 until his overthrow
• Jean-Claude Ellena, a French perfumer
• Jean-Claude Éloy (born 1938), a French classical composer
• Jean-Claude Etienne (born 1941), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Flabel, an author of aerospace engineering tex books
• Jean-Claude Flornoy (born 1950), a French specialist of the Tarot of Marseille
• Jean-Claude Flory (born 1966), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Forest (1930–1998), a writer and illustrator
• Jean-Claude Fournier (born 1943), a French cartoonist
• Jean-Claude Frécon (born 1944), a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Fruteau (born 1947), a French politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Jean-Claude Gakosso (born 1957), a Congolese politician
• Jean-Claude Garoute (1935–2006), a Haitian painter and sculptor
• Jean-Claude Gaudin (born 1939), a French politician
• Jean-Claude Gayssot (born 1944), a French politician
• Jean-Claude Gérard, a well-known flutist
• Jean-Claude Germain (born 1939), a playwright, author, journalist and historian
• Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939), a French writer of children's books and a playwright
• Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943), a Quebec -based academic Educationist
• Jean-Claude Guibal (born 1941), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Guiguet (1948–2005), a French film director and screenwriter
• Jean-Claude Hamel (born 1929), the President of AJ Auxerre from 1963 to 2009
• Jean-Claude Irvoas (1949–2005), a French employee of a street furniture firm
• Jean-Claude Iranzi (born 1992), a Rwandan football player
• Jean-Claude Izzo (1945–2000), a French poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist
• Jean-Claude Juncker (born 1954), a Luxembourgian politician
• Jean-Claude Kebabdjian (born 1942), a French-Armenian editor and journalist
• Jean-Claude Killy (born 1943), a former champion alpine ski racer
• Jean-Claude Lauzon (1953–1997), a Canadian filmmaker
• Jean-Claude Labrecque (born 1938), a director and cinematographer
• Jean-Claude La Marre, a Haitian-American writer
• Jean-Claude Larréché, the Alfred H. Heineken Chaired Professor of marketing at INSEAD
• Jean-Claude Latombe (born 1947), a French -American roboticist
• Jean-Claude Lattès, a French publishing house
• Jean-Claude Lavaud (born 1938), a retired French football player
• Jean-Claude Lebaube (1937–1977), a former French
• Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, a French art historian and art critic
• Jean-Claude Leclercq (born 1962), a French former professional road bicycle racer
• Jean-Claude Lemoult (born 1960), a French former professional football player
• Jean-Claude Lenoir (born 1944), a contemporary member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Leroy (born 1952), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Leuyer (born 1970), an American kickboxer
• Jean-Claude Logé (born 1941), a Belgian businessman
• Jean-Claude Lorquet (born 1935), a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Liège
• Jean-Claude Magnan (born 1941), a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition
• Jean-Claude Malépart (1938–1989), a French Canadian politician
• Jean-Claude Maleval, a French lacanian psychoanalyst
• Jean-Claude Malgoire (born 1940), a French conductor
• Jean-Claude Marcourt (born 1956), the Belgian Minister of Economics and Employment
• Jean-Claude Martinez (born 1945), a French politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Jean-Claude Mathis (born 1939), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Maurice (born 1943), a French journalist and a political scientist
• Jean-Claude Merceron (born 1942), a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954), a French astronomer
• Jean-Claude Mézières (born 1938), a French comic strip artist and illustrator
• Jean-Claude Mignon (born 1950), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Milner (born 1941), a French linguist, philosopher and essayist
• Jean-Claude Mpassy, a German-Congolese football player
• Jean-Claude Mukanya (born 1968), a retired football player
• Jean-Claude Ndoli, a Rwandan born football player
• Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (1861–1930), a French landscape architect
• Jean-Claude Osman (born 1947), a French retired professional football defender
• Jean-Claude Panet (c. 1719 – 1778), a key figure in the 18th century community of Quebec
• Jean-Claude Parrot (born c. 1937), the National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
• Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992), a French singer
• Jean-Claude Paye (born 1934), a Belgian sociologist
• Jean-Claude Pecker, a French astronomer, member of the Académie des sciences
• Jean-Claude Perez (born 1964), a French politician and member of the National Assembly
• Jean-Claude Peyronnet (born 1940), a member of the Senate of France
• Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis, the Chief Executive of Rodrigues island, Mauritius
• Jean-Claude Raphael (born 1973), a Mauritian judoka
• Jean-Claude Rakotonirina, a Malagasy politician
• Jean-Claude Risset (born 1938), a French composer
• Jean-Claude Rouzaud, the president of Champagne Louis Roederer
• Jean-Claude Skrela (born 1949), a former coach of the French national rugby union team
• Jean-Claude Rabbath (born 1977), a Lebanese high jumper
• Jean-Claude Renard (1922–2002), a French poet
• Jean-Claude Rivest (born 1943), a Canadian lawyer, politician and Senator
• Jean-Claude Rodet (born 1944), a French-speaking Canadian author
• Jean-Claude Rudaz (born 1942), a former racing driver from Switzerland
• Jean-Claude Sandrier (born 1945), a French politician and former mayor of Bourges
• Jean-Claude Schindelholz (born 1940), a Swiss football striker
• Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), a prominent French medievalist
• Jean-Claude Thomas (born 1945), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Tochon, a Swiss slalom canoer
• Jean-Claude Tremblay (1939–1994), an ice hockey defenceman
• Jean-Claude Sebag (born 1943), a French politician and lawyer
• Jean-Claude Siapa Ivouloungou, a Congolese politician
• Jean-Claude Suares, a designer of books, magazines and newspapers
• Jean-Claude Suaudeau (born 1938), a former French football player
• Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943), a French musician, composer and arranger
• Jean-Claude Vrinat (1936–2008), the owner of the Taillevent restaurant
• Jean-Claude Scraire (born 1946), as an independent advisor on matters of strategic
• Jean-Claude Sensemat (born 1951), a French businessman
• Jean-Claude Simon, one of the pioneers in the field of semiconductor optical amplifiers
• Jean-Claude Olry (born 1949), a French slalom canoer
• Jean-Claude Pagal (born 1964), a former Cameroonian footballer
• Jean-Claude Petit (born 1943), a French composer and arranger
• Jean-Claude Piumi (1940–1996), a French former football defender
• Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), a French chemist and pharmacist
• Jean-Claude Romand (born 1954), a French impostor and murderer who pretended to be a medical doctor
• Jean-Claude Saint-André (born 1962), a Quebec provincial politician
• Jean-Claude Richard (1727–1791), a French painter and engraver
• Jean-Claude Rouget (born 1953), a French Thoroughbred horse trainer and former jockey
• Jean-Claude Scherrer (born 1978), a professional tennis player
• Jean-Claude Trichet (born 1942), the current president of the European Central Bank
• Jean-Claude Turcotte (born 1936), a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Montréal
• Jean-Claude Usunier, a Professor of Marketing at HEC Lausanne, Switzerland
• Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe (born 1944), a Walloon politician
• Jean-Claude Van Damme (born 1960), a Belgian martial artist and actor
• Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe (1962–2009), a Belgian-Ukrainian equestrian
• Jean-Claude Viollet (born 1951), a member of the National Assembly of France
• Jean-Claude Wicky (born 1946), a photographer noted for his series on Bolivian miners
• Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 1967), a Swiss entrepreneur with strong connections to Angola
• Jean-Claude (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character), a fictional character in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels