Darius Paul Dassault

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Darius Paul Dassault (né Bloch; 13 January 1882 – 3 May 1969) was a French general and member of the French Resistance[1], and a recipient of the grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur, a military medal.

After graduating from the École Polytechnique in 1901, Dassault served an artillery officer. He fought in World War on the French front and later with the Army of the Orient. He was cited six times and made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1916.

After the Battle of France and the defeat in June 1940, Dassault joined the Resistance in December 1941. In early 1944, he was appointed clandestine military governor of Paris, and, on August 25, the day of the liberation of Paris, General de Gaulle appointed him Grand Chancellor of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, a post he held until 1954. On December 31, 1947, he was promoted to General of the Army (2nd section). He also resumed his research and scientific publications on chemical warfare, air ballistics, and atomic energy, which led to his election to the French Academy of Sciences in 1953.

He was the older brother by ten years of the industrialist Marcel Dassault.

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