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The story of Renault is first and foremost the story of a man with an unusual destiny. The adventure began on December 24, 1898, when Louis Renault took up a challenge to drive his A-type Voiturette up the steep Rue Lepic in Montmartre, Paris. The exploit won him his first 12 orders. The company continued to grow as Renault began winning road races: Paris-Berlin, Paris-Vienna ...

Louis Renault was born into a typically bourgeois Parisian family in February 1877. The youngest of five children, he had two sisters and two brothers. The Renault family had a second home in Billancourt, very near to Paris, and it was in a garden shed there that the young Louis used his skills and set up his first workshop. Studies were not his strong point and he was more than content to pass his baccalauréat. But the quiet teenager had two vital assets for getting on in life: he was both intuitive and practical.

His two brothers, Marcel and Fernand Renault, who ran the family business prudently, set up the new Renault Brothers company in 1899 . It was through racing that Renault Brothers became known, with Louis and Marcel at the wheels of their vehicles. Starting with the Paris-Trouville event in 1899, they chalked up win after win in most of the city-to-city races, including Paris-Bordeaux, Paris-Ostend, Paris-Berlin and, most important, a magnificent Paris-Vienna won by Marcel in 1902.