Louis Renault invented the direct-drive transmission and became the Henry Ford of France — hard-charging, obsessive, and vastly rich. Then de Gaulle confiscated everything. Now his heirs, armed with ...

Born in 1877 to a wealthy family of Paris merchants, Renault was the last of five children but the first one interested in all things mechanical. Electricity and engines were his passion and, during a ...

Few Frenchmen wept when they read in their newspapers one October morning in 1944 that Louis Renault had died in a Paris nursing home. He had been rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, ...

Renault ist ein französischer Automobilhersteller mit Sitz in Boulogne-Billancourt. Der Konzern beschäftigt weltweit rund 156 ...

The French are once again picking the scab of Nazi collaboration, said Marie-Amélie Lombard. The car company Renault was nationalized right after World War II because of its complicity with the Nazis ...

The story of Louis Renault, the founder of the French car company that still bears his name, is a movie waiting to be made. A young genius pioneers motorcar design and single-mindedly forges a ...

Some people are just born curious. One minute, Louis Renault was tying a system of ropes from his bed post, allowing a set of zinc plates to dip into an acid bath that turned them into batteries. One ...