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Dassault, Serge

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Personal name headingDassault, Serge
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Variant(s)Bloch, Serge, 1925-2018
Birth date1925-04-04
Death date2018-05-28
Place of birthParis (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activityIndustrial management Business Aircraft industry France--Politics and government Corbeil-Essonnes (France)--Politics and government
AffiliationEcole polytechnique (France) Ecole nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (France) France. Sénat UMP (Political party)
Groupe industriel Marcel Dassault
Profession or occupationBusinesspeople Politicians
Found inHis La gestion participative, 1978: t.p. (Serge Dassault, président de l'Association française pour la participation dans les entreprises) flap (grad. of École polytech. and École nat. sup. de l'aéronautique; C.P.A.)
His J'ai choisi la vérité, 1983: t.p. (Serge Dassault)
Washington post WWW site, viewed May 29, 2018 (Serge Dassault, the billionaire businessman and politician who inherited an aviation empire from his World War I aircraft-designer father, died May 28 [2018] in Paris; he was 93; a spokesman for the company he chaired, Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, confirmed the death; born Serge Bloch in Paris on April 4, 1925; after his father Marcel Dassault's 1945 release from Buchenwald concentration camp, Marcel changed the family name to Dassault; Mr. [Serge] Dassault joined the family business in 1951 after graduating from France's engineering school, Ecole Polytechnique and the Institut Superieur de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace; his father made Mr. Dassault head of Dassault Electronique; only after Marcel Dassault's death in 1986 did Mr. Dassault take over as chief executive of Dassault Groupe; in March 2004, Mr. Dassault bought Le Groupe Figaro, publisher of one of France's most widely read newspapers; the company also owns the Paris-based auction house Artcurial and wine estates in Bordeaux; a member of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party, Mr. Dassault was elected mayor of the Paris suburb of Corbeil-Essonne[s] in 1995; in 2004, he became a UMP senator; in June 2009, he was stripped of his mayoral position when a civil court found him guilty of making cash payments to voters)
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