Marcel Renault

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Marcel Renault (1871 or '72 -1903) was a French car racing driver and industrialist, co-founder of the car maker Renault, and the brother of Louis and Fernand Renault.
He and his brothers jointly founded the Renault company on February 25, 1899. He and Louis raced the cars it built starting the next year. He died at 31 on May 25, 1903 of severe injuries he sustained the day before in the Paris-Madrid race.

After his death, a statue was built in his memory which later would be destroyed by the German attacks during the Second World War.

[edit] External links

• History of Renault with Marcel
• Marcel Renault at Find A Grave