Claude de Cambronne
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Claude de Cambronne | |
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Born | Paris, France | 23 October 1905
Died | 31 January 1993 Paris, France | (aged 87)
Resting place | industrialist, French Resistance |
Known for | founding Bordeaux-Aéronautique |
Spouses |
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Children | 3 |
Claude de Cambronne (23 October 1905 – 31 January 1993) was a French businessman.[1]
Early life
He studied at the
Career
After serving as a
In 1939,
On 27 November 1940 Marcel Bloch gave him a letter, for the Association des anciens élèves de Sup'Aéro:
My dear comrades, if the time is difficult, do not despair of the future. (...) After this war where ships, rolling stock, commercial aircraft have been destroyed, the airline industry will experience an unprecedented boom as it will replace most means of transport. (...) "No doubt that the government of the French state in a rebuilt Europe will keep our country from aircraft production amounts to our technique and our geographical position in the world. (...) "President of your Association, I will return one day place me next to you, and my friendly competition will be as always granted. (Claude Carlier, Marcel Dassault : La légende d'un siècle, Éditions Perrin, mai 2002, p. 129)
On 18 April 1941 Claude de Cambronne asked Christian du Jonchay, future founder of the Légion impériale, to write to André de Gorostarzu, member of the cabinet of Philippe Pétain, in vain.[3]
On 19 May he became the representative in
The Bloch MB. 1020's construction was stopped at the end of 1940 and the BA 30 realized by Bordeaux-Aéronautique became the
After the war, he worked for
Awards
- Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
Personal life
His family came from
See also
Bibliography
- Marcel Dassault, Le Talisman (autobiographie), éd. J'ai Lu, 1970 et éd. Jours de France, 1973
- Jean-Yves Lorant, Le Focke-Wulf 190, Paris, avec Jean-Bernard Frappé, Editions Larivière, coll. « Docavia », 1981, 408 p.
- ISBN 9782715804067
- Herrick Chapman, State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991
- Claude d'Abzac-Epezy, L'Armée de l'air des années noires : Vichy 1940-1944, avec Général Maurice Schmitt, 1998
- Claude Carlier, Marcel Dassault la légende d'un siècle, Perrin, 2002
- Patrick Facon, La guerre aérienne, 1933-1945, 2003
- Guy Vadepied (avec la collaboration de Pierre Péan), Marcel Dassault ou les ailes du pouvoir, éd. Fayard, 2003
- ISBN 978-2847344141
- Claude Carlier, Dassault, de Marcel à Serge, Cent ans d'une étonnante aventure humaine, industrielle et politique, Perrin, 2017
References
- ^ "La mission impossible des historiens du régime de Vichy". frblogs.timesofisrael.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
- ^ Carlier, Claude (2002). Marcel Dassult: La legend d'un siecle. Editions Perrin. p. 103.
- ^ Dassault, by Claude Carlier, 2017
- ^ Bordeaux Aéronautique was founded on 17 October 1939 by deed under private-seings filed with master Bonnel, notary in Paris on 19 October. On equities, 650 belong to Marcel Bloch, 655 to André Curvale, 390 To Henri Deplante and 260 to Claude de Cambronne, who are the main shareholders. (Claude Carlier, Marcel Dassault : La légende d'un siècle, Éditions Perrin, 2002)
- ^ Dassault, by Claude Carlier, 2017