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The Vaillant was a French automobile built in Lyon from 1922 to 1924. It was a cyclecar which used a Chapuis-Dornier engine of either 961 cc or 1350 cc.
Vaillant may refer to:
- Vaillant (surname)
- Vaillant (automobile)
- Vaillant, Haute-Marne, a commune of the Haute-Marne department, France
- Vaillant (magazine) and Vaillant, le journal de Pif, children's magazines
- Vaillant Group, a group of companies operating in the HVAC and Renewable Energy sectors
- a ship sunk by an iceberg in 1897 with the loss of 78 lives
Vaillant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Artists of the Dutch Golden Age- Andries Vaillant (1655–1693), engraver and painter
- Bernard Vaillant (1632–1698), painter
- Jacques Vaillant (painter)
- Jan Vaillant (1627–1668), painter
- Wallerant Vaillant, painter
- Daniel Vaillant (1949– ), French socialist politician
- Édouard Vaillant (1840–1915), prominent French socialist
- Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist
- François Le Vaillant, French explorer and ornithologist
- George Clapp Vaillant, American anthropologist
- George Eman Vaillant, American psychiatrist
- Léon Vaillant, French zoologist
- Louis Vaillant (1874–?), French doctor, naturalist, explorer and soldier
- Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist
- André Vaillant (1890–1977), French linguist and Slavist
- Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (1793-1858), French naval officer
- François Vaillant de Gueslis, French Jesuit missionary
- Greta Vaillant (?–2000), French actress
- Jean Alexandre Vaillant, French and Romanian historian and schoolteacher
- Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, French soldier
- Jehan Vaillant (fl. 1360–1390), French composer
- John Vaillant (fl. 2005–), Canadian author
- Nigel Le Vaillant, British actor
- Pierre Henri Vaillant (1878-1939), French painter
Fictional characters:
- Michel Vaillant, a comic book character
Usage examples of "vaillant".
According to John Knott, the French traveler, Le Vaillant, said that the more coquettish among the Hottentot girls are excited by extreme vanity to practice artificial elongation of the nympha and labia.
Edouard Vaillant, heir of the old Communard Blanqui, headed a separate Socialist Revolutionary Party from which an extreme wing split off called the Allemanists for its leader, Jean Allemane.
And not satisfied with the condemnation of the guilty man, they began to pursue the Anarchists, and arrest not only those who had known Vaillant, but even those who had merely been present at any Anarchist lecture.
Par l'ordre du Senechal de Castelnau, et de l'Echevin de Cahors, servantes fideles du tres vaillant et tres puissant Edouard, Prince de Galles et d'Aquitaine.