Serge Dassault
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Serge Dassault | |
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Member of theFrench SenateforEssonne | |
In office 1 October 2004 – 1 October 2017 | |
Succeeded by | Laure Darcos |
MayorofCorbeil-Essonnes | |
In office 1995–2009 | |
Preceded by | Marie-Anne Lesage |
Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Bechter |
Personal details | |
Born | Serge Paul André Bloch 4 April 1925 Paris, France |
Died | 28 May 2018 Paris, France | (aged 93)
Resting place | Passy Cemetery,Paris |
Spouse |
Nicole Raffel (m.1950) |
Children | Olivier Dassault Laurent Dassault Thierry Dassault Marie-Hélène Dassault |
Parent(s) | Marcel Dassault Madeleine Minckès |
Relatives | Darius Paul Dassault(uncle) |
Education | Lycée Janson-de-Sailly Lycée Saint-Louis |
Alma mater | École Polytechnique SUPAERO HEC Paris |
Occupation | Businessman |
Serge Dassault(French:[sɛʁʒdaso];bornSerge Paul André Bloch;4 April 1925 – 28 May 2018) was a French engineer, businessman and politician.[1]He was the chairman and chief executive officer ofDassault Group,and a conservative politician. According toForbes,Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at US$15 billion.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]He was the younger son ofMadeleine Dassault(néeMinckès)[3]andMarcel Dassault(born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch),[4]from whom he inherited theDassault Group.Both his parents were of Jewish heritage, but later converted to Roman Catholicism.
In 1929, his father founded what is nowDassault Aviation.[5]During the Second World War, he was jailed when his father was sent toBuchenwaldfor refusing any cooperation from his company,Bordeaux-Aéronautique,directed by Henri Déplante, André Curvale andClaude de Cambronne,with the German aviation industry.[citation needed]
He studied at theLycée Janson-de-Saillyin the16th arrondissement of Pariswhere he received hisbaccalauréat.He earned engineering degrees from theÉcole Polytechnique(class of 1946) andSupaéro(class of 1951). In 1963, he received anExecutive MBAfromHEC Paris.[6]
Business career
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After his father's death in 1986, Serge Dassault continued developing the company, with the help of CEOsCharles EdelstenneandÉric Trappier.[citation needed]His group also owned the newspaperLe Figaro.In December 1998, he was sentenced to two years' probation in the BelgianAgusta scandal,and was fined 60,000 Belgian francs (about €1,500).[citation needed]
According toForbes,the Dassault family also owns a winery, property in Paris, and an art auction house.[7]
Political career
[edit]Dassault was a member of theUnion for a Popular Movementpolitical party, as was his sonOlivier,who was adeputyin theNational Assembly.He was a former mayor of the city ofCorbeil-Essonnes,a southern suburb of Paris.[citation needed]
In 2004, he became asenator,and in that position, he was an outspoken advocate of conservative positions on economic and employment issues, claiming that France's taxes and workforce regulations ruin its entrepreneurs.[citation needed]In 2005, he inaugurated the €2 millionIslamic cultural centre(comprising a mosque) in his city of Corbeil-Essonnes.[8]In November 2012, responding to theAyrault government's plan to legalisesame-sex marriage in France,he controversially said, during an interview forFrance Culture,that authorising it would cause "no more renewal of the population. [...] We'll have a country of homosexuals. And so in ten years there'll be nobody left. It's stupid".[9]
Personal life and death
[edit]Dassault married Nicole Raffel on 5 July 1950. They had four children:Olivier,Laurent,Thierry,and Marie-Hélène.[10][user-generated source]
He died suddenly in his office at the Dassault Group headquarters in Paris on 28 May 2018, from heart failure at the age of 93.[11][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Serge Dassault".Who's Who in France.Retrieved10 March2021.
- ^Adams, Henri."Serge Dassault — pg.19".Forbes.Retrieved27 November2017.
- ^"Madame a Prisoner Before",Ottawa Citizen,25 May 1964.
- ^Jean Mayet (19 September 2013).365 jours ou Les Éphémérides allant du XVIe au XXe siècle(in French). Mon Petit Éditeur. p. 220.ISBN978-2-342-01183-8.
- ^abAu-Yeung, Angel."Billionaire French Businessman Serge Dassault Dies At 93".Forbes.Retrieved29 May2018.
- ^"HEC Alumni".www.hecalumni.fr.Retrieved19 February2018.
- ^"Serge Dassault & family".Forbes.com.Retrieved8 March2021.
- ^"le petit monde de bernard gaudin".gaudin.ber.free.fr.Retrieved11 September2016.
- ^"Dassault, les homos, et la Grèce antique",Libération,7 November 2012
- ^familiale.
- ^"Décès de Serge Dassault".LEFIGARO.28 May 2018.
External links
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