Jean-Pierre Hallet was born to Andre Hallet, an Impressionist painter, and his wife Berthe even at a young age, he was making waves – Jean-Pierre was a fourteen-pound baby, and his mother needed six months of bedrest to recover after his birth (though she showed the same fighting spirit he did, living to over 100 years old).Īs a painter, Andre’s art took them all over Europe and later to Africa, where they lived on the remote shores of Lake Kivu, in what is now Rwanda.
Occupation: Explorer, sociologist, conservationist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, freedom fighter In this final edition of Historical Badasses, we’ll take a look at one of the most legendary Belgians in all of history. Have you ever blown yourself up with TNT and lived to tell the tale? What about delivering over 500 babies? What about learning 19 different languages? Yup, Jean-Pierre Hallet did all of that, and so, so much more. What about crocodiles, lions or leopards? Probably not those either. Have you ever fought Nazis? No, probably not.