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.… ...

With Fernand and Marcel at the wheel of Renault race cars, they chalked up win after win from Paris to Berlin. Their victory in Bordeaux in 1900 netted 350 orders alone.

With the financial backing of his two older brothers, Marcel and Fernand, who had run their father's button and fabric business since his death in 1892, Louis expanded his backyard workshop into ...

Of all the brilliant people who acquired patents for inventions and built empires, he was one of the most successful, but one of the most tragic.

The brothers Louis, Marcel and Fernand Renault, founders of the Renault car company, were using motorsport as a platform to sell cars before the term ‘grand prix’ was even coined – let alone ...

From left: Louis Renault, grandson and namesake of the founder; Laurent Dingli, Renault's biographer; and Hélène Renault-Dingli, Laurent's wife and granddaughter of the founder. 2 ...

The brothers Louis, Marcel and Fernand Renault, founders of the Renault car company, were using motorsport as a platform to sell cars before the term ‘grand prix’ was even coined – let alone ...