About Louis Armand
Louis François Armand (French: [lwi aʁmɑ̃]; 17 January 1905 – 30 August 1971) was a French engineer and senior civil servant who managed several public companies and had a significant role in World War II. He was an officer in the Resistance who was arrested by the Gestapo and then freed from jail during the liberation of Paris. He served as the first president of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) from 1958 to 1959 before he was elected to the Académie Française in 1963. A station on Marseille Metro Line 1 opened in 2010 under Boulevard Louis-Armand bears his name. He became the first president of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) as chair of the Armand Commission from 1958 to 1959 before he was elected to the Académie Française in 1963. In 1940–1941 he invented a method for preventing the calcification, furring up, of engine boilers called the Traitement Integral Armand (TIA) water treatment process for steam locomotives. In 1949, Armand was named the general manager of the SNCF and created the Société du tunnel sous la Manche in 1957.
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