Serge Dassault

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Serge Dassault
Dassault in 2016
Member of the French Senate for Essonne
In office 1 October 2004 – 1 October 2017
Succeeded by	Laure Darcos
Mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes
In office 1995–2009
Preceded by	Marie-Anne Lesage
Succeeded by	Jean-Pierre Bechter
Personal details
Born	Serge Paul André Bloch (1925-04-04)4 April 1925 Paris, France
Died	28 May 2018(2018-05-28) (aged 93) Paris, France
Resting place	Passy Cemetery, Paris
Spouse	Nicole Raffel ​ (m. 1950)​
Children	SUPAERO HEC Paris
Occupation	Businessman

Serge Dassault (French: [sɛʁʒ daso]; born Serge 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 of Dassault Group, and a conservative politician. According to Forbes, Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at US$15 billion.^[2]

Early life and education

He was the younger son of Madeleine Dassault (née Minckès)^[3] and Marcel Dassault (born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch),^[4] from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Both his parents were of Jewish heritage, but later converted to Roman Catholicism.

In 1929, his father founded what is now Dassault Aviation.^[5] During the Second World War, he was jailed when his father was sent to Buchenwald for refusing any cooperation from his company, Bordeaux-Aéronautique, directed by Henri Déplante, André Curvale and Claude de Cambronne, with the German aviation industry.^{[citation needed]}

He studied at the

Business career

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After his father's death in 1986, Serge Dassault continued developing the company, with the help of CEOs Charles Edelstenne and Éric Trappier.^{[citation needed]} His group also owned the newspaper Le Figaro. In December 1998, he was sentenced to two years' probation in the Belgian Agusta scandal, and was fined 60,000 Belgian francs (about €1,500).^{[citation needed]}

According to Forbes, the Dassault family also owns a winery, property in Paris, and an art auction house.^[7]

Political career

Dassault was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement political party, as was his son Olivier, who was a deputy in the National Assembly. He was a former mayor of the city of Corbeil-Essonnes, a southern suburb of Paris.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, he became a senator, 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 million Islamic cultural centre (comprising a mosque) in his city of Corbeil-Essonnes.^[8] In November 2012, responding to the Ayrault government's plan to legalise same-sex marriage in France, he controversially said, during an interview for France 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

Dassault married Nicole Raffel on 5 July 1950. They had four children:

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

• List of French people by net worth
• The World's Billionaires

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Serge Dassault.

• Serge Dassault and family – Forbes profile