François Renaud [SEP] cause of death
François Renaud
François Renaud (5 March 1923, – 3 July 1975) was a French judge whose murder in 1975 led to much speculation, but was never solved. He was the first judge in France to have been assassinated since World War II. His death inspired the French film "Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff" (1977), directed by Yves Boisset.
Life.
Renaud was born in Hao Giang, Tonkin, Vietnam. The son of a doctor, and descendant of an aristocratic lineage one
to keep them from falling under the control of the British. He helped defeat the forces of the Fox Nation and acquired a young Fox slave, whom he named François-Michel. This slave eventually was owned by his son, François-Marie Bissot.
He died in 1719 at Kekionga and was succeeded by his son as commander of the French in Miami country. After his death, a permanent garrison was established in the Maumee River area by Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson.