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Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry.
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business · French industrialist (1877–1944) · inventor · racing automobile driver · entrepreneur · industrialist · racing driver · businessperson · designer · also Louis Renault, Louis Renault (industrialist), Renault
Born 12 February 1877 · Died 24 October 1944 · Q298766
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Patrick Fridenson, a business history professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the author of a book on Renault said “It's extremely difficult to say to what extent Louis Renault should b
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His heirs again sought to restore Renault's reputation and receive compensation for what they see as the illegal confiscation of his company by the state
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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The London Daily Telegraph reported that "according to eyewitness and family accounts, the previously wiry little 67-year-old had been tortured and beaten," and that "a nun at Fresnes testified that she saw Renault colla
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The Daily Telegraph said Renault had "felt that his duty was to preserve France's manufacturing base
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“It is better to give them the butter, or they”
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Of the original Renault Frères company, celebrated by Régie Renault, the company ignored the grandchildren of Louis Renault
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When the French government sold 80% of the company
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Representatives of the Organisation civile et militaire and their counterparts at the company Robert de Longcamps, worked in vain for the rehabilitation of Louis Renault, saying he had been "wrongfully accused of collabo
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His wife claimed that Renault died from beatings and torture at the hands of prison guards
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Time magazine described Renault as "rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire — vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a f
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Renault's widow, Christiane Renault, claimed that Louis Renault was murdered and sought "to establish that Louis Renault was another of the more than 9,000 Frenchmen listed by the government as having been killed by "irr
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Stating that he and the plant had not collaborated
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Had, however, "stubbornly refused to recognize legal actions against him after the war
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Died 1944-10-24.
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After the expropriation of his company and his subsequent death, Renault's last will and testament was opened to reveal that he had left his company to his 40,000 employees
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Renault surrendered "on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted"
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Life described him as a "notorious Paris collaborationist"
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Renault visited Adolf Hitler and, by 1939, he had become an important supplier for the French army
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1932).
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Of the revolutionary and highly effective Renault FT tank, which he had personally designed with Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier, was perhaps Renault's most significant contribution during that period
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Career landmark: president (1913–1918).
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Louis Renault took overall control of the company after Fernand retired for health reasons
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his decisive influence upon the conduct and outcome of the Hague and Geneva Conferences.
Hiring a pair of workmen to modify a used 3⁄4 hp (560 W) De Dion-Bouton cycle which featured a revolutionary universally jointed driveshaft and a three-speed gearbox with reverse, with the third gear in direct drive (whi
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Born 1877-02-12.
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