Louis Renault

Wiki tells us

During the Nazi occupation of France, the company was under the control of the Germans,[9] with people from Daimler-Benz in key positions. Renault himself became unpopular among members of the French resistance. In March 1942, the Renault factories on Île Seguin had become top priority targets of the British and allied bombers of the Royal Air Force and were ultimately destroyed. Renault’s health issues worsened, including his severely diminished renal function, and in 1942, he suffered aphasia, and was unable to speak or write.

Three weeks after France was liberated in 1944, Renault surrendered “on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted.”[2] He was arrested outside Paris on September 22, 1944, on charges of industrial collaboration with Nazi Germany.[9] At the time of his arrest, Renault “denied that his firm had received $120,000,000 from the Germans for war materials, said that he had kept his huge, much-bombed plant going at the request of Vichy to keep its materials and equipment out of Nazi hands and to save workers from deportation.”[12] He was incarcerated in Paris’ Fresnes Prison[12] being already seriously ill at the time. The records for the exact period of his incarceration at Fresnes would later turn out to be missing.[13] Renault was moved on October 5[13] to a psychiatric hospital at Ville-Evrard in Neuilly-sur-Marne.[2]

When Renault’s health quickly declined on October 9, 1944 he was again moved to a private nursing home at the clinic Saint-Jean-de-Dieuhe in the Rue Oudinot, Paris[10] at the request of his family and supporters, having gone into a coma.[7] He died on October 24, 1944, four weeks after his incarceration, still awaiting trial and having claimed to have been mistreated in Fresnes Prison, with his 1918 French Legion of Honor for exceptional contribution to the victory of the First World War, having been expunged by the Vichy régime.[14]

No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of Louis Renault’s death remains unclear. An official report at the time gave the cause of death as uremia.[10]

Moggy

I believe he died around about the time of his trial. ISTR reading that when boning up on the Nord1101 some time ago. Don’t think it was Wiki though, probably a french site which was translated.