In 1944, he would enlist properly, and go on to win several medals for bravery in combat as the Allies fought to liberate western Europe. While not technically a man, he still stood 6’5″ and 250 pounds at the age of fifteen in 1942. When World War II broke out and the Nazis invaded Belgium, Hallet was too young for active enlistment, so he joined a guerrilla resistance force.Here’s an abridged list of why the man is such a badass of history: Things got crazier for Jean-Pierre Hallet as he got older. By the time he was six, he refused to speak French to them, so they shipped him back to Belgium to complete his formal schooling. As a young boy, Jean-Pierre lived among the Bantu tribes, learning their languages, dressing like them, and rebelling hard against his European parents. 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.
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