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 ...

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, ...

We'll probably never know if Louis Renault was more sinned against than sinning Louis Renault's life and career were pretty much defined by the two World Wars. While the first one made him one of the ...

Little more than 60 years ago, on October 24, 1944, Louis Renault, giant of early motoring and arguably the greatest single name in French auto history, died in a hospital in the Rue Oudinot, Paris, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little more than 60 years ago, on October 24, 1944, Louis Renault, giant of early motoring and arguably the greatest single name in French auto history, died in a hospital in the Rue Oudinot, Paris, ...