Background
Jean Pierre Nicolas Renouard was born in Paris in 1922 to a family of French "grands bourgeois".
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Jean Pierre Nicolas Renouard was born in Paris in 1922 to a family of French "grands bourgeois".
His ancestors include Armand Bertin, Jules Bapst and Renouard du Tinel. Ingres painted a famous portrait called "monsieur Bertin", which is now at le Louvre. Jules Bapst was the jeweller to the French Royal family.
One of his masterpieces, the crown of king Charles Xth, was stolen from le Louvre in 1960 and was never foundation
Lastly, Renouard du Tinel was a giant swinging a short tree and drinking from a barrel, who fought the Moors (Arabs) along the South coast of France around the year 1000. His studies at Janson de Sailly high school were interrupted in May 1940 by the German invasion.
Jean-Pierre Nicolas Renouard was freed by British troops from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. After a long recovery, he left for the United States and studied at the School of Business Administration of Cornell University, Ithaca, New New York
There followed an international career of forty years in the oil industry.
From 1975 to 1987 he was president of Copechim France, a company trading in crude oil.
Eventually members of the Sosies network led by Dominique Ponchardier, the two brothers were arrested in May 1944 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at the Fort du Hâ in Bordeaux before being deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. The author was named a member of the Cornell Council in 1989.