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Louis Renault (industrialist)

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1945, Berliet claimed in his defence that his company had produced fewer cars for the German occupiers than any other car producer: 2,239 cars for the Germans vs. 6,548 for French customers. This is compared to Renault which had delivered 32,887 vehicles to the Germans and only 1,697 to French clients, a pattern followed by Citroen (32,248 produced for Germans and only 2,052 for French clients) (Aron, 1974). Managers at Renault claimed, for their part, that they had deliberately slowed down production, producing 7,677 fewer vehicles than the target of 41,909 vehicles imposed by the German occupiers. The argument, however, cut no ice with the
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droit à l'indemnisation très partielle de Jean-Louis Renault, unique héritier direct de Louis Renault vis à vis de biens personnels non industriels. Louis Renault est titulaire de la Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur pour sa contribution exceptionnelle à la victoire de la Première Guerre mondiale en 1918. Il a été radié par le gouvernement de Vichy.
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The activities of Louis Renault led to the spectacular expropriation of his company by the State; what is less well known is that he died in prison awaiting trial, and therefore was never convicted. The car manufacturer Marius Berliet suffered the same fate of expropriation. At his trial in September
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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 collapse after being hit over the head by a jailer wielding a helmet. An X-ray organised by his family indicated
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was opened to reveal that he had left his company to his 40,000 employees. At the time the company was nationalized, Renault's wife Christiane and her son Jean-Louis owned 95% of the company stock and had received nothing, while the other stockholders were in fact compensated. By 1956, "Renault now
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When Renault's health quickly declined on 9 October 1944 he was again moved to a private nursing home at the clinic Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in the Rue Oudinot, Paris at the request of his family and supporters, having gone into a coma. He died on 24 October 1944, four weeks after his incarceration, still
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En 1982, un résistant de l'OCM, et cadre de l'entreprise, Robert de Longcamps, réclamera en vain la réhabilitation de Louis Renault "injustement accusé de collaboration avec l'ennemi", mais sa lettre au Garde des Sceaux, Robert Badinter, restera sans réponse. Le 29 juillet 1967 une loi a reconnu le
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Renault's were the only manufacturer whose plants were confiscated permanently by the state, and indeed the Renault works, like the Berliet truck factory at Lyon, might have been returned to private hands, had M. Renault lived as long as M. Marius Berliet who built 2,330 trucks for the Germans but
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with Nazi Germany. At the time of his arrest, Renault "denied that his firm had received $ 120,000,000 from the Germans for war materials, said that he had kept his huge, much-bombed plant going at the request of Vichy to keep its materials and equipment out of Nazi hands and to save workers from
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invaded France in 1940, Renault was in the U.S., having been sent by his government to ask for tanks. He returned to find the Franco-German armistice in place. Renault was faced with the choice of cooperating with the Germans and possibly forestalling them from moving his factory and equipment to
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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 friend to practically none," adding that to the French working man, Renault became
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said Renault had "felt that his duty was to preserve France’s manufacturing base. Military and Daimler-Benz officials arrived at the gates of his Billancourt factory to assess it for removal into Germany, together with its workforce. Renault fended them off by agreeing to make vehicles for the
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Nearly 70 years after the pioneering automaker Louis Renault died in a French prison, accused of collaborating with the Nazis, his grandchildren are seeking to restore his reputation — and gain compensation for what they say was the illegal confiscation of his car company by the
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said it could legally be argued that the Renault company, the "jewel in the country’s industrial crown" was procured by theft, and that "admission that Louis Renault and his company had received rough justice would raise the question of compensation – huge compensation."
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truck factory in Lyon remained in Marius Berliet's family possession, despite his having manufactured 2,330 trucks for the Germans. Marius Berliet, who died in 1949, had, however, "stubbornly refused to recognize legal actions against him after the war."
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In 1956, 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 "irregular executions" in the
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being already seriously ill at the time. The records for the exact period of his incarceration at Fresnes would later turn out to be missing. Renault was moved on 5 October to a psychiatric hospital at Ville-Evrard in
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in his own factory. The resulting shells helped overcome the shortages, but as they had to be manufactured in two pieces they were inherently weak at the base thus sometimes letting hot gases detonate the
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Thus, the company Louis Renault had created was nationalized on the official case of collaboration. Renault was charged posthumously with "guilty enrichment obtained by those who worked for the enemy".
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company on 25 February 1899. Initially, business and administration was handled entirely by the elder brothers, with Louis dedicating himself to design and manufacturing. Marcel was killed in the 1903
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officials avoid mention of Louis Renault. For the centennial in 1999 of the original Renault Frères company, celebrated by Régie Renault, the company ignored the grandchildren of Louis Renault.
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Ironically Renault had Jewish ancestry: Through his paternal great-grandmother, Victoire Angibau, herself, granddaughter of Marie Abraham, he descended from an old Alsatian Jewish family)
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Renault remained in complete control of his company until 1942, dealing with its rapid expansion while designing several new inventions, most of which are still in use today, such as
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The casket of Louis Renault, prewar owner of France's largest automobile factory, was raised from the family tomb today to press his widow's claim that he was murdered.
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in 1944, Renault surrendered "on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted." He was arrested outside Paris on 22 September 1944, on charges of industrial
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In 2011, 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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On 29 July 1967, Louis-Jean Renault, the only heir, received minor compensation, specifically for non-industrial, personal losses. In 1982, representatives of the
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after the war for the major contribution of his factories to the war effort. His factories' mass production in 1918 of the revolutionary and highly effective
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his factories contributed massively to the war effort, notably so by the creation and manufacture of the first tank of modern configuration, the
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No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of Renault's death remains unclear. An official report at the time gave the cause of death as
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and sabotaged trucks. Dipsticks were marked low, for example, and engines dried and seized in action, an outcome much in evidence on the
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who stubbornly refused to recognize legal actions against him after the war. He died in 1949, and his firm remained in family hands.
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France's largest nationalized company, employing 51,000 Frenchmen, making 200,000 automobiles and a profit of $ 11 million a year."
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On 26 September 1918, Renault, then aged 40, married the 21-year-old Christiane Boullaire (1897–1979), sister of French painter
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inside the shell. Over 600 French 75mm guns were destroyed by premature explosions in 1915, and their crews killed or injured.
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The director of the plant during the war obtained a judgment in 1949 stating that he and the plant had not collaborated.
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Germany, which would lead to an accusation of collaboration with the enemy. He put his factories at the service of
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In October 1944, the provisional French government seized Louis Renault's company. The Minister of Information,
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with reverse, with the third gear in direct drive (which he patented a year later). Renault called his car the
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Later, in 1956, his wife claimed that Renault died of beatings and torture at the hands of guards in prison.
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Renault built one of France's largest automobile manufacturing concerns, which still bears his name. During
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workers at the Boulogne Billancourt plant. He pleaded for a necessary union between European nations.
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During the interwar period, his right-wing opinions became well known, leading to various cases of
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Renault's were the only factories permanently expropriated by the French government. As of 2005,
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for exceptional contribution to the victory of the First World War, having been expunged by the
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Subsequent studies have shown that while Renault had collaborated, "he also hived off
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report said Renault attempted to save his company from displacement and absorption by
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In 1944, after the expropriation of his company and his subsequent death, Renault's
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On 1 January 1945, four months after Louis Renault's death, an order of General
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Share of the SA des Usines Renault, issued 1. January 1932 to Louis Renault
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Seeing the commercial potential, he teamed up with his two older brothers,
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He built his first car in 1898, hiring a pair of workmen to modify a used
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in key positions. Renault himself became unpopular among members of the
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Parisian family of Alfred and Berthe Renault, Louis Renault attended
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the company was under the control of the Germans, with people from
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To Restore Reputation of a Renault Founder, Family Goes to Court
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had become top priority targets for the British bombers of the
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in 1942 described him as a "notorious Paris collaborationist".
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Louis Renault competed fiercely with Citroën, whom he called "
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awaiting trial and having claimed to have been mistreated in
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Association RENAULT HISTOIRE – Un peu d'histoire (in French)
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Vichy France: old guard and new order: 1940–1944, p. 343
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Louis Renault was decorated with the Grand Cross of the
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engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in
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Wright, Sue; Hantrais, Linda; Howorth, Jolyon (1974).
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Paris
Fresnes Prison
Fresnes, France
Business
Renault
Marcel Renault
Fernand Renault
Legion of Honor
[lwiʁəno]
industrialist
Renault
automobile
World War I
Renault FT
collaborating
World War II
Time
Billancourt

bourgeois
Lycée Condorcet
engineering
mechanics
Serpollet
steam car
Panhard
Billancourt
De Dion-Bouton
cycle

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