biography
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Dassault, Marcel
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originally Marcel Bloch
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pronunciation:
[dasoh]
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| lived:
| (1892–1986)
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| biography:
| Aviation pioneer, industrialist, and politician, born in Paris, France. He studied aeronautical design and electrical engineering at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de L'Aéronautique (1913), and joined Henri Potez in building aircraft during World War 1. During World War 2 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald, and later converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism. Following the war he adopted the name Dassault (his brother's code name in the French Resistance), and founded his own company, building a series of highly successful aircraft in the 1950s, such as the Mystère and Mirage, guided weapons, and specialized equipment. He was deputy in the National Assembly (1951–5), and for the Oise (1957–8), and was elected to the National Assembly in 1986. |
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