The rond-point des Champs-Elysées in Paris was renamed the rond-point des Champs-Elysées-Marcel-Dassault in his honour
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Marcel Dassault
Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than three decades in both houses of the French Parliament from 1951 until his death in 1986.
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business · French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986) · aerospace engineer · inventor · entrepreneur · businessperson · media proprietor · screenwriter · film producer · politician · also Marcel Dassault, Dassault
Born 22 January 1892 · Died 17 April 1986 · Q160802
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1990· 1 entry
The aviation division was renamed Dassault Aviation
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1986· 3 entries
Died 1986-04-17.
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1986–1986).
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And was buried at the Passy Cemetery in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1981–1986).
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1978· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1978–1981).
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1976· 1 entry
Won Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1976).
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1973· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1973–1978).
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Dassault was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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1971· 1 entry
Dassault acquired Breguet, forming Avions Marcel Dassault–Breguet Aviation (AMD–BA)
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1968· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1968–1973).
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1967· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1967–1968).
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1962· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1962–1967).
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1958· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1958–1962).
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1952· 1 entry
In July 1952, Dassault acquired the Paris landmark buildings now known as Hôtel Marcel Dassault, dating from 1844,
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1951· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1951–1955).
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1945· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1945–1947).
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1944· 1 entry
The Nazis deported Bloch to the Buchenwald concentration camp, as punishment for refusing to co-operate with their regime
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1936· 1 entry
The company was nationalized as the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest (SNCASO)
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1935· 1 entry
Bloch and Henry Potez entered into an agreement to buy Société Aérienne Bordelaise (SAB)
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1928· 1 entry
Bloch founded the aircraft company Société des Avions Marcel Bloch, which produced its first aircraft in 1930
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1919· 1 entry
Bloch married Madeleine Minckès, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family of furniture dealers
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1916· 1 entry
With Henry Potez and Louis Coroller, he formed a company, the Société d'Études Aéronautiques, to produce the SEA series of fighters
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-01-22.
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