Jean-Luc Lagardère

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Jean-Luc Lagardère (1972)

Jean-Luc Lagardère (born February 10, 1928 in Aubiet as Jean-Lucien Lagardère , † March 14, 2003 in Paris ) was a French entrepreneur .

Career

Jean-Luc Lagardère dominated the French media market with his Lagardère Medias group . In addition to the technology and space company Matra , which has been part of EADS since 2004 , he also owned radio and television stations such as Europe 1 , Canal J. , daily newspapers such as La Provence ( Marseille ) and Nice-Matin ( Nice ), the leading Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche , magazines such as Elle and a publishing group (Hachette, Fayard, Grasset).
His son Arnaud took over the management of Lagardère SCA in 2001 .

Jean-Luc Lagardère died on March 14, 2003 at the age of 75.

Private life

In 1958 he married Corinne Levasseur , who gave him a son in 1961, Arnaud Lagardère . The two divorced in 1975. In August 1993 he married a second time, the model Elisabeth Pimenta Lucas (Bethy).

The A380 plant in Toulouse bears his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography - Jean-Luc Lagardère
  2. Jean-Luc Lagardère, 75, Executive, Dies; Founded an Aerospace and Media Empire (March 16, 2003)
  3. How EADS Became Airbus . online.wsj.com, January 1, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.