Louis Renault
Louis Renault
by Jean-Noël Mouret
at Folio biographies
" Very young, temperamentally, I had a pleasure, I had only joy, that design, create and produce something. This is the reason why one of my first concerns was to build a small workshop. Later, when i returned from military service, I had the idea to build, for myself, a car. So by nature I have the desire for achievement, and rapid realization. In addition, i have always loved independence. What could, more than the automobile, meet these two characteristics: speed and independence ? »
Child prodigy of mechanics and inveterate dunce, automotive pioneer who especially loved boats, bossy and shy sickly boss, big bourgeois passionate about manual work, brilliant businessman who thought he was a brilliant technician, Louis Renault (1877-1944) was both "Little Louis", "Monsieur Renault" and "the tapper of Billancourt". Adulated, praised, then hated and thrown in jail, his life was like a Greek tragedy. But the imprint of his industrial empire built with the power of the wrist still marks the French industrial landscape today..
Unpublished text – ISBN 978-2-07-033822-1
