SNCF

"In 1944, Boulanger is listed by the Gestapo among the personalities dangerous to the security of the Reich. In the event of an Allied troop landing, he is to be immediately brought before the firing squad. Pierre Bercot, who opposes the requisition of the large presses from the Saint-Ouen factory and their transfer to an unknown destination, is questioned by the Gestapo and then imprisoned in Fresnes prison (after managing, with the complicity of a SNCF resistance network, to redirect the convoy to Burgundy)."

"SINCE the arrival of the socialists in power in France, Michelin has become even more secretive. Roger Quillot, the senator-mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, is at the Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing. Pierre Dreyfus, the former president of Renault — Citroën’s former enemy — is at the Ministry of Industry on Rue de Grenelle. The communist Charles Fiterman, Minister of Transport, intends to favor the SNCF at the expense of road transport. The Communist Party demands to include Michelin on the next list of nationalizable companies. François Michelin, who apparently had little affinity with previous Elysée teams, now resides on his lands, erecting new walls. Last June, before his shareholders, he once again expressed concern about “the gap that often exists between industrial and economic reality and the perception that political circles have of it.” Once again, he went to war against “the scarcity of savings and especially the abusive use of credit, not for the creation of means of production but for financing that is not a source of wealth, such as state deficits, consumer credits, excessive working capital of companies.”"