From: Lyssabelle15@aol.com Serge and Claude Lebrun 2 brothers started the Michelin tires...then Serge left for N.Y. Claude stayed in Haiti...and the business grew and some add where made with a man with a tire in his neck...then the name Pere Lebrun was born...the rest is history...bye...the son of Serge...lives in Fla...I hope this will give you a good basis of what you wanted to know...