French Automaker Hotchkiss Produced the Gregoire Luxury Car

Hotchkiss Gregoire 1950 - 1953
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The Gregoire is a luxury car produced from 1950 to 1954 by the French automaker Hotchkiss. Only about 247 were produced, with serial numbers 500 to 747.

Hotchkiss Anjou 1950
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The Gregoire was a modern-looking four-door saloon. Reportedly as a response to disappointing sales for the saloon, special-bodied coach-built coupé and cabriolet versions also appeared at the 1952 Paris Motor Show,^[1] including a streamlined Gregoire-based coupé with an eye-catching 'panoramic' rear window bodied by the coachbuilder Henri Chapron.^[2]

Hotchkiss Gregoire 1950 - 1954
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Hotchkiss Gregoire 1951
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Hotchkiss Gregoire Coach Chapron (1951 - 1953)
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Hotchkiss Gregoire 1951 - 1953
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Hotchkiss Gregoire Coach Chapron
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1951 Hotchkiss Gregoire Rear View
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Hotchkiss Gregoire Rear View
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For more than thirty years, each new Hotchkiss had represented a gentle evolution from the previous model. With the Gregoire the company made a radical bid to create a new generation of cars. The car carried the name of its designer, Jean-Albert Gregoire, a man who had made his name in the 1930s as a car designer, with experience in designing front-wheel-drive cars, and a man who had spent much time during the war working on the application of aluminium to car production. Directly after the war, with European demand for war planes abruptly curtailed, the recently developed aluminium industry found opportunities in the more radical designs coming out of the automotive sector, and the Hotchkiss Gregoire was notable for its lightweight chassis, which incorporated much aluminium. The car also featured a new 2180 cc horizontal boxer water-cooled four-cylinder engine capable of delivering a claimed 70 or, from 1952, 75 HP.^[1] The flat-four engine permitted a low bonnet/hood line but was fitted well forward which enforced an extensive front overhang. The gear box was a four-speed unit with synchromesh on the upper three ratios and overdrive on the fourth.^[1]

Hotchkiss Gregoire Coupe
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Hotchkiss Gregoire -This car was the only one of this model exported to North America for Mack Corporation of New York.
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Hotchkiss Gregoire 1952
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Hotckiss Gregoire JAG (1953)
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Hotchkiss Gregoire JAG 1953
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Hotchkiss Gregoire c. 1952
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Hotchkiss Gregoire Coach Chapron 1951 - 1953
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Hotchkiss Gregoire Interior
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The Gregoire’s commercial performance was affected by the company's 30-year record of producing worthy but conservative saloons. High development costs had to be amortised over the number of cars sold, and the low sales level led to a high retail price which, in turn, depressed sales further. By 1952 the Gregoire was retailing for twice the price of the similarly sized six-cylinder Citroën Traction 15CV.^[1] An additional challenge came from government taxation policies during the early 1950s in the French market, which heavily penalised larger cars. At the 1952 Paris Motor Show with several French luxury auto-makers clearly in trouble it was noted that for the Gregoire, despite its upmarket aspirations, the company was only able to distribute a very skimpy brochure, provided without any colour pictures.^[1] By 1953 output had slowed and only about 40 were produced,^[1] and by the time production ceased towards the end of that year, only 247 Hotchkiss Gregoires had been built; of these 235 had been four-door saloons.

References

1. 
   

"Automobilia". Toutes les voitures françaises 1953 (salon Paris oct 1952) (Paris: Histoire & collections). Nr. 14: Page 38. 2000.

2. Gloor, Roger (2007). Alle Autos der 50er Jahre 1945 - 1960. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-613-02808-1.

• This entry is based on the Italian Wikipedia entry concerning the same car.

External links

• page about Grégoire in histomobile-website






















• page about Grégoire in autoweek-website

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Jean-Albert Gregoire - Helped Create the First Front-Wheel-Drive Car

Jean-Albert Gregoire (7 July 1899 in Paris – 19 August 1992) was one of the great pioneers of the front-wheel-drive car. He contributed to the development of front-wheel-drive vehicles in two ways. The first way was in developing and promoting the Tracta joint (designed ^[1] by his friend Pierre Fenaille), which was, until manufacturing techniques had progressed sufficiently to allow the successful manufacture of the constant velocity joints commonly in use today, the preferred choice of most manufactures of vehicles that had driven front wheels. Tracta joints were used by many of the pioneers of front-wheel drive, including DKW between 1929 and 1936 and Adler from 1932 to 1939 as well as the cars designed by J A Gregoire that will be mentioned later. The Tracta joint was fitted to most of the military vehicles that had driven front wheels used by most of the combatants in the Second World War. They included Laffly and Panhard in France, Alvis and Daimler in the UK and Willys in the USA that used the joint in a quarter of a million Jeeps and many others. This was to continue after the war, the first Land Rover being so fitted.

The second way he contributed to the development of front-wheel-drive vehicles was in designing and in some cases manufacturing front-wheel-drive cars. The Tracta Gephi was his first design and it was this car that inspired him to design a constant velocity joint. All subsequent Tracta cars, and there were about two hundred manufactured between 1927 and 1932, used it. The first of these was raced at Le Mans in 1927 completing the 24 hour race. The Tracta cars used engines from S.C.A.P. from 1100 cc to 1600 cc, and Continental and Hotchkiss, from 2700 cc to 3300 cc.

J .A. Gregoire designed an 11cv 6-cylinder car for Donnet in 1932. Only four prototypes were produced, one being shown at the Paris Salon of 1932 before Donnet went into liquidation. He then worked with Lucian Chenard to design two cars for Chenard et Walcker. They were of advanced design but were not a commercial success. In 1937 he designed the Amilcar Compound, produced by Hotchkiss from 1938 to the Second World War, by which time 681 examples had been made. It was constructed using another of Gregoire's ideas, a cast Alpax (light alloy) chassis frame. Other advanced features were rack and pinion steering and all independent suspension. But the car had its bad points, cable brakes and gear-change linkage and a side-valve engine although the latter was still common at this time. An overhead valve version came later. During the Second World War he secretly worked with his design team at his works at Asnières-sur-Seine on a small car the Aluminium "Francais-Gregoire". It had a chassis-body frame of light alloy, front-wheel drive, an air-cooled flat twin engine and independent suspension on all wheels. A four-seat car weighting only 880 pounds (400 kg) and could reach 60 mph (97 km/h) while returning 70 mpg^[vague]. This design was to form the basis of the 1950 "Dyna" Panhard. In 1950 another Hotchkiss car the "Hotchkiss-Gregoire", was produced again with an alloy chassis and body. With independent suspension on all four wheels and fitted with a water-cooled flat four engine of 2 litres, ahead of the front axle, it was fast, with a top speed of 94 mph (151 km/h), but the car was expensive and only 250 examples were made by 1954. In 1956 Gregoire produced a two-seat convertible with a 2.2-litre supercharged flat-four engine producing 130 bhp (97 kW; 132 PS) and, as in the case of the cars mentioned previously, front-wheel drive. All of ten cars made were fitted with bodies designed and built by Henri Chapron.

All the cars mentioned previously were front-wheel-drive cars. Gregoire also designed a couple of rear-wheel-drive machines, the first an electric car with the machinery in the mid-engine position and a gas turbine car the experimental Socema-Gregoire with a front-power-unit and rear-drive layout.

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Mont-Saint-Gregoire, Quebec (Municipality)

Mont-Saint-Gregoire - A Sugarbush path of Undergrowth
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The Presbytery
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A masonry near Mont St-Gregoire
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City of St. Gregoire from the mountain
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Illuminations end of 2005
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Illuminations end of 2005
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire - Erablière Goudrelle way Sous-Bois
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Mont Saint-Grégoire - St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church
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St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire - Path Undergrowth, maple Denis Charbonneau
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 3,086. Residents of Mont-Saint-Gregoire are called Grégoriens (Grégoriennes, fem.).

Mont-Saint-Gregoire, Montérégie (Québec) - The maple "In the Undergrowth" in 2008, before its destruction by fire in March 2010
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Harvest sap
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire was named for Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, who was succeeded by Sabinian.^[5]

Saint André Bessette was born in Mont-Saint-Gregoire.

References

1. Reference number 296582 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Mont-Saint-Grégoire
3. Parliament of Canada Federal Riding History: SAINT-JEAN (Quebec)
4. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec
5. Historique de Mont-Saint-Grégoire
6. "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
7. "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census

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Joseph-Ernest Gregoire: French Canadian Politician

Joseph-Ernest Gregoire (July 31, 1886 – September 17, 1980) was a French Canadian ^[1]

Joseph-Ernest Gregoire
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politician.

He was born in Disraeli, Quebec on July 31, 1886. He was an attorney and a professor. He
also was the father of Gilles Grégoire, a co-founder of the Parti Québécois.

Gregoire ran for mayor in Quebec City in 1934 and won, defeating Oscar Drouin. His term of office ended in 1938.
 
He was elected as the Action libérale nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1935 in the riding of Montmagny. He was re-elected in 1936 as the Union Nationale candidate.

In 1937, he and colleagues René Chaloult, Oscar Drouin, Philippe Hamel and Adolphe Marcoux left the Union Nationale. They founded a short-lived party that was called Parti national.^[2] Gregoire did not run for re-election in 1939.

Cardinal Villeneuve, Mgr Camille Roy, Georges-Henri Lévesque & J.-Ernest Gregoire, 1938 at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City, at the announcement of the founding of the School of Social Sciences at Laval University
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Joseph-Ernest Gregoire circa 1935
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In 1934, Gregoire was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. In 1935, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Member of the Barreau du Quebec in 1913, he practiced law from 1938 to 1966.


He died on September 17, 1980.

 References

1. "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
2. Chronologie parlementaire depuis 1791 (1937-1939)

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Alexandre Gregoire: Haitian Painter

Alexandre Gregoire (August 29, 1922 – July 28, 2001) was a Haitian painter who typically depicted scenes of Vodou, daily life, and historical events in the naïve style.

Born in Jacmel, Gregoire was educated from 1930 to 1937 by the Christian Teaching Brothers, and then studied cabinet making at the Jacmel vocational school for two years. In 1939 he joined the army and played the tuba and saxophone in the army band. He stayed in the army until the 1950s; during the presidency of Paul Magloire he left the military and joined the band at the National Palace.

In 1968, with the encouragement of his friends Préfete Duffaut and Pierre-Joseph Valcin and the help of the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince, Gregoire began painting.

Paintings by Alexandre Gregoire have been sold by the Friends of HAS Haiti to raise funds for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, located in Deschapelles.

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Marie Gregoire: Canadian National Assembly

Marie Gregoire (born August 15, 1965) was the Action démocratique du Québec Member National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the electoral district of Berthier from 2002 to 2003.

Marie Gregoire
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Gregoire was first elected to the National Assembly in a by-election held on June 17, 2002 with 51% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) star candidate David Levine finished second with 28% of the vote.

In the 2003 election, Gregoire finished second with 32% of the vote, behind PQ candidate Alexandre Bourdeau (35%).

During the 2007 campaign and since then, Gregoire has been a regular panelist on the Réseau de l'Information's news program Le Club des Ex, along with former political opponents Liza Frulla of the Liberal Party and Jean-Pierre Charbonneau of the PQ.^[1]

In April 2007, she signed a manifesto that urges Quebec to choose an electoral system in which a significant number of seats would be determined by proportional representation instead of plurality.^[2]
  
Footnotes

1. Le panel des ex-politiciens, Radio-Canada, February and March, 2007
2. Oui à la proportionnelle, François Desjardins, Le Devoir, April 2, 2007

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Gregoire Lake Provincial Park

 

Lake Gregoire
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Gregoire Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada. It is located close to Highway 63, between Fort McMurray and Lac La Biche, on the northern shore of Gregoire Lake.


The park is situated at an elevation of 490 m (1,610 ft) and has a surface of 27.2 km² (10.5 sq mi). It was established on October 21, 1969 and is maintained by Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation.  The park has one overnight camping ground on the shore of Gregoire Lake and an additional day use area.

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The following activities are available in the park:^[1]

• Beach activities
• Birdwatching
• Camping
• Canoeing/kayaking
• Cross-country skiing (10 km non-groomed trails)
• Fishing
• Group camping
• Front Country Hiking
• Horseshoes
• Ice fishing
• Power boating
• Sailing
• Snowmobiling (on to lake only and on designated snowmobile trails outside the park)
• Swimming
• Water-skiing
• Windsurfing

References
Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation & Culture. "Activities in Gregoire Lake Provincial Park". Retrieved 2008-09-13.



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