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...pipe-smoking son of the Count of Paris, who is pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg: their second child, first son and third in line in a succession reaching back to 888, when Eudes became King of France; in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Name: Francois Henri Louis Marie de France...
...Ogre. With $15,000 and a genius for things mechanical, Louis Renault and two brothers started building racing cars in 1899 in a shop in his mother's backyard. By 1908 the shop was a 50,000-sq.yd. factory in Billancourt, near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon building 5,000 Renault automobiles a year. And Louis Renault owned it all. Vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none. To the French working man, Renault became "the ogre of Billancourt." He instituted piecework, maintained an internal intelligence and security system similar...
FRANÇOIS BALLANDE Boulogne-Billancourt, France...
...previous strikes the Reds could always count at least on closing down the Renault plant-long a Communist stronghold-in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. This time, Red goon squads succeeded in shutting off power and steam, but were challenged and thrown out by fighting contingents from non-Communist unions, and production was soon back to normal...
...Bloody Slow. On that night some 200 R.A.F. planes attacked the Renault truck and tank works at Billancourt, near Paris. It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland. What Harris had done was to mass bombers on a scale never at tempted by his predecessors. He was soon to do it on a scale never possible to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain...