Re: Laureline...a pure saul
was transformed into a unicorn, but saved by Valérian, shortly after their first encounter.
Meizières drew in a very early book scenes in a bar with many different species; much later, the same scene appeared in Star Wars; Lucas never wrote to him, although it was discovered he had Valérian and Laureline's adventures in his bookshelve!
How unfair....
It's true those adventures never had a large market in the anglo-saxon countries.
Raoul