Charles Jeantaud (1840-1906) was a French engineer who invented the parallelogram steering linkage in 1878[citation needed].

He was born in Limoges, in what is now the Haute-Vienne department of central France.

The vehicle had a Gramme-design electric motor with a Fulmen-made battery.

From 1893 to 1906 he built vehicles under the trademark Jeantaud in Paris.

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