Marcel Bloch / Dassault 1892 - 1986
Serge Dassault 1925 - 2018
(92 and 93 years - 185 years of Dassault !)
Serge was a complex personality. Difficult relationship with his father, for a start. The entire family barely survived WWII, they all ended in Drancy transit camp, on their way to Auschwitz or Buchenwald. Marcel actually was deported, nearly died, and was saved by communists (the irony escaped no one).
The relationship between father, son, the company and the French state was quite troubled. They resisted nationalisations, but also growing too big or be bought by bigger companies - in France or elsewhere.
Serge late life really took a nose dive - what he did as mayor of Corbeilles Essone would make Silvio Berlusconi or Donald Trump blush in jealousy. Massive corruption and debt. Essentially his political career was a total mess. Father corrupted tyrans abroad, the son brought corrupt bargains closer from home. As for corrupt bargain to sell weapons, if only Dassault was the only one. See Lockheed past, present.