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| PIERRE BOULANGER became head of Citroën after the Traction Avant of 1934 broke both the company & it’s founder. (Given to extravagance Andre Citroën had once hung his name in lights on the Eiffel Tower with 100 000 light globes). Dreaming of building a car for the French peasantry, Boulanger’s brief was at once pragmatic & poetic; “be able to drive across a newly ploughed field with a basket of eggs aboard & not break a single one”, “ carry lengths of lumber & building materials” & “ one should be able to enter and exit the car without knocking off one’s hat”. The result was the 2cv, a car so simple, if it was any simpler it would not have been a car at all. | |