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Louis Renault - Biography (835 words) |
 | At the first Hague Peace Conference of 1899, Renault was the reporter for the Second Commission, which was concerned with various questions governing naval warfare, and the principal drafter of the Final Act - the «summary» - of the Conference. |
| Renault, Louis, First Violations of International Law by Germany: Luxembourg and Belgium, translated from the French by Frank Carr. |
| Renault, Louis, «War and the Law of Nations in the 20th Century», translated from the French by George D. Gregory, in American Journal of International Law, 9 (1915) 1-16. |
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Louis Renault (industrialist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (449 words) |
| Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France – October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. |
| The youngest of five children born into a Paris bourgeoisie family, Renault was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from a very early age, and would spend many hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt. |
| Over the next forty years Renault was to remain very controlling of his company, dealing with Renault's rapid expansion and various cases of labor unrest while designing countless new inventions, most of which are still in use today, such as hydraulic shock absorbers, the modern drum brake, compressed gas ignition, the turbocharger, and the taximeter. |
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