So did the Plymouth Valiant name come from a french cartoon character?

I had the pleasure of working with an ex chrylser engineer who was on the Valiant development program several years ago. According to him, during development the car was intended to be called the Falcon but Ford put out press releases with that name first and it was scuttled. He said, as Valleyant referenced, there was then a nameing contest at the Chrysler engineering/tech center and a secretaries submission was chosen and Valiant was born. All heresay of course but a second development engineer on the team that he put me in contact with in 2010 who had retired to Florida backed up his story. RIP Russ Shreve (192?-2012), you designed one hell of a car!!!