Dassault Aviation becomes a Patron of the Order of Liberation
Dassault Aviation becomes a Patron of the
Order of Liberation
(Saint-Cloud, France, June 18,
2020) - Eighty years after General de Gaulle’s appeal of
18 June, Dassault Aviation is proud and honored to support the
French Order of Liberation. To officialize this patronage, a
meeting was held today at the Chancellery of the Order of
Liberation, between General Christian Baptiste, national delegate
of the Order, and Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chairman and
CEO.
On June 18, 1940 General de Gaulle broadcast his
call to resistance after France was left destroyed and defeated. He
continued the fight and restored the honor of our nation by placing
it in the winning camp. As of 1958, he went on to achieve
tremendous progress, notably in the areas of the constitution,
economy, diplomacy and defense.
On November 16, 1940 General de Gaulle created
the Order of Liberation to reward individuals or military and
civilian groups (Companions) for their distinguished deeds in the
liberation of France. Today, the Order pursues the mission of
developing the spirit of Defense through the achievements of French
Liberation Companions and Resistance Medal awardees.
There are many similarities between De Gaulle's
work and Dassault Aviation, and although the years and generations
pass, they remain firmly rooted in the identity of our company, our
management and our teams.
Marcel Dassault was an engineer, an aviation
genus, detained with his family and deported because he refused to
collaborate with the occupying regime. After the war, he took the
name Dassault, the alias given in the Resistance to his brother,
General Paul Bloch; Paul Bloch was appointed Grand Chancellor of
the Legion of Honor by De Gaulle in 1946.
Marcel Dassault was also a great industrialist,
who recreated his family business after the Liberation with his
engineers from the 1930s, many of whom had distinguished themselves
in the fight against the enemy: Benno-Claude Vallières, future CEO
of Avions Dassault, and Henri Déplante, future design office
director, served remarkably in the SAS; Xavier d’Iribarne, later
head of production, was an officer in the 1st Army of General de
Lattre de Tassigny. During the post-war decades, Dassault numbered
four Liberation Companions (Pierre-Ghislain de Bénouville, Pierre
Clostermann, Louis Cortot, Jacques Maillet) and over 170 Resistance
Medal honorees in its ranks.
The aviation and defense industry owes much of
its current success to industrial Gaullism. France's great
champions, including Dassault Aviation, have inherited from
political governance aiming to restore a sovereign ecosystem for
France built on national independence and deterrence. "If France
must carry a sword, it must be her own".
This patriotism and economic sovereignty, put
back on the agenda by the crisis our country is facing, run through
Dassault Aviation's blood. As an industrial actor, the great
majority of our teams work on the national territory, where we pay
our taxes, where our employees are consumers and pay their taxes,
and where our facilities contribute to the economic development of
many regions of France.
Charles de Gaulle and Marcel Dassault shared a
social vision of the role of business. They were very much in favor
of profit-sharing, established by the former and thoroughly
implemented by the latter. At Dassault Aviation, an agreement
dating back to 1959 organizes profit-sharing in four almost equal
shares: one for shareholders, one for corporate income tax and one
for the employees, the last one being retained by the company. This
is a cornerstone of Dassault's model.
General de Gaulle also left us a European
legacy, a legacy of French-German cooperation, with the Elysée
Treaty. We must pursue these efforts to build European strategic
independence so that together, countries in Europe can take control
of their future while remaining sovereign. The FCAS (Future Combat
Air System) project is part of this process, to give participating
European countries the benefit of proprietary military systems.
Because as the General taught us, unless we have our own resources,
there is no freedom of action. And sovereignty is pure illusion. We
are therefore working with our German and Spanish partners to
prepare the future of combat aviation in Europe. We are proud of
our prime contractor role on the New Generation Fighter (NGF) of
which the first demonstrator phase was launched in January. This
program will enable us to continue the great aviation adventure for
the sovereignty and independence of France in the context of a
Europe that protects.
Dassault Aviation is a flagship French industry
which innovates continually, from the post-war Flamant to Ouragan,
Mystère, Mirage, Falcon, Rafale and nEUROn, and now to the NGF of
tomorrow. Like General de Gaulle, “never tired of waiting in the
dark for a glimmer of hope”, we trust in our lucky star, our
talisman, this four-leaf clover returned to Marcel Dassault after
the hell of the concentration camps, as a symbol of hope preserved
and a venture to pursue.
True to our predecessors, we must continue the
work they began over a century ago, with the same determination and
energy, to ensure the sovereignty of French and European wings.
ABOUT DASSAULT AVIATION: With
over 10,000 military and civil aircraft delivered in more than 90
countries over the last century, Dassault Aviation has built up
expertise recognized worldwide in the design, development, sale and
support of all types of aircraft, ranging from the Rafale fighter,
to the high-end Falcon family of business jets, military drones and
space systems. In 2019, Dassault Aviation reported revenues of €7,3
billion. The company has 12,750 employees.
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PRESS CONTACTS:
Corporate Communications Stéphane
Fort - Tel +33 (0)1 47 11 86 90 -
stephane.fort@dassault-aviation.com Mathieu Durand - Tel +33 (0)1
47 11 85 88 - mathieu.durand@dassault-aviation.com
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