Michel Hommell

Michel Hommell is a big boss of the French press born the February 20th 1944 with Nancy.

He is married and has two children. He is the cousin of Gerard Lignac, chairman of the group France Is Media.

Very early, Michel Hommell impassions himself for the Automobile and the automobile Sport. He took part during 3 years in the cut R8 Gordini.

In 1968, it publishes its first magazine, Échappement , specialized in the mechanical sports. Consequently, it will not stop its empire with more than 25 directed magazines leisures gathered in the Groupe Michel Hommell.

In love with the countryside and the hurdy-gurdies stones, Michel Hommell is on the initiative of the revival of the commune of Lohéac which fell gradually into the lapse of memory.

Ghost of a voyage in England, it imports some, in 1976, a new discipline: the Rallycross, with the first French test with Lohéac.

As of the old one 18 years, it started to collect the cars, passion which will not stop any more. In order to be able to concentrate its collection in a single place, it made build a museum: le' Manor of the automobile' to Lohéac. In 1985, it begins work in a body from farm of the New Court to transform it 3 years later into Manoir of the car , one of the most beautiful museums car with more than 400 models.

In 1992, to the Motor-show with Paris, it presents its first car left its factory of Lohéac: the Hommell berlinette Exhaust and marketed in 1994.

Internal bonds

Its automobile mark
Its press group

External bond

Manor of the car

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