Louis Armand

Louis Armand , born with Cruseilles (Haute-Savoie), on January 17th, 1905 and dead on August 30th, 1971 with Villers-on-Sea (Apple-brandy), is engineer, senior official and resistant French. He is leading state enterprises, in the field Ferroviaire and of the atomic energy.

Biography

Wire of a couple of teachers, child endowed for the studies, it is exempted classes of sixth and fifth, to enter directly a class of fourth to the Berthollet college to Annecy, then with the Lycée of the Park to Lyon, before continuing his higher learning with the Polytechnic school (Promotion 1924). He leaves second and chooses there the Corps of the Mines, and in 1926, he leaves major the école des Mines.

In 1928, it marries Genevieve Gazel, girl of a teacher of Cruseilles.

Starting from 1929, he is engineer with the Mines of Clermont-Ferrand and he devotes himself to work on mineral water, then enters in 1934 to the Compagnie of the railroad the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean (PLM), of which he will be executive vice president. In 1938, he becomes chief engineer of the SNCF lately created.

In February 1943, it organizes the group “Resistance-iron” and on June 25th, 1944, it is stopped by the Gestapo. It leaves the Prison of Fresnes thanks to the Libération of Paris and receives the Croix of the Release by decree of November 18th, 1944.

In 1945, it is named executive vice president of the SNCF, then managing director in June 1949. Of 1951 with 1959, he is president of the International union of the railroads. In 1957, it creates the Company of the Channel tunnel and starts again the studies, which will not have a continuation, with Britanniques. In 1958 and 1959, it chairs also the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

In 1960, it is one of the writers of the Rueff-Armand Plan. This plan, preceding the Common Market, then in formation, and written in collaboration with Jacques Rueff, to the head of a committee of ad hoc experts, recommends the opening to competition and the removal of the obstacles to the economic expansion.

In December 1960, he is elected with the Academy of Science morals and political, in December 1962, he is named president of AFNOR, before being elected with the French Academy on June 13rd, 1963.

Works

  • 1961 : Plea for the future (in collaboration with Michel Drancourt)
  • 1965: Of Savoy to the Valley of Aoste by the tunnel of Mont Blanc
  • 1968: Simple remarks
  • 1969: railway Remarks
  • 1970: Of cybernetics to the profit-sharing (in collaboration with Michel Drancourt)
  • 1970: the company of tomorrow
  • 1971: the European bet (in collaboration with Michel Drancourt)
  • 1974: Message for my professional fatherland (posthumous)

Scientific contribution: the TIA

See also: integral Treatment Armand

Louis Armand is at the origin of a chemical process intended to avoid the formation of tartar in pipings of the Locomotives to vapor. Invented in the years 1940, this process is called “integral Traitement Armand” (TIA). It was deployed successfully on the park of engines with vapor of the SNCF.

Others

One owes in Armand the introduction in 1973 of the neologism “creativity” into the Dictionnaire of the French Academy. (réf.néc.)

Decorations

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