12 Facts About Pierre Lefaucheux

Pierre-Andre Lefaucheux was a leading French industrialist and recipient of the Order of Liberation, awarded to heroes of France's Liberation during World War II.

Pierre Lefaucheux volunteered for military service in September 1917, his record of military achievement in the First World War being crowned with his receipt of the Croix de Guerre.

Pierre Lefaucheux's distinguished Resistance career was truncated when he was captured and imprisoned at Buchenwald.

Pierre Lefaucheux had no great passion for cars, and even after being appointed to the top job at Renault he continued, for some time, to travel to work using his preferred form of locomotion, a pedal cycle.

Pierre Lefaucheux set a pattern whereby Renault, despite now being a nationalised industry, ferociously rejected management by politicians: in this he was naturally able to draw on the network of influential former resistance leaders and fighters, many now in positions of power within the Fourth Republic French state.

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On Friday, 11 February 1955, Pierre Lefaucheux was scheduled to give a presentation to Catholic students in Strasbourg.

Pierre Lefaucheux was succeeded at Renault by the company's vice-president, Pierre Dreyfus.

Pierre Lefaucheux is buried at Saint-Quentin-des-Pres, in the Oise Department, and is a street named in his honour remains integral to the area of Paris formerly occupied by the Renault Boulogne-Billancourt works.

Pierre Lefaucheux had been arrested by the Gestapo during World War II and was rescued by Marie-Helene Postel-Vinay whom he subsequently married and by whom he was ultimately survived.

Mrs Pierre Lefaucheux later became a Member of the first Constituent Assembly of France, Counsel for the Republic elected by the National Assembly from 1946 to 1947, member of the French delegation to the United Nations.

Pierre Lefaucheux was one of the fifteen founding members of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Marie-Helene Pierre Lefaucheux died in the 1964 New Orleans crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 304.