Pierre Bordeaux-Groult
Pierre Bordeaux-Groult | |
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| Born | 22 August 2007 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Pierre Bordeaux-Groult, born March 21, 1916 in Paris and died August 22, 2007, is a French businessman.
Biography
After studying at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monceau and the Lycée Carnot, he graduated from HEC Paris and the University of Oxford (economic and political sciences).
A reserve officer, he joined the 3rd Moroccan spahis regiment and served in the Vichy army in Africa during the World War II. He took part in the campaign in Italy under General Juin, then in Provence, Rhine and Danube under the orders of General de Lattre. At the Liberation, he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Navarre, general Koenig's chief of staff in Baden-Baden.[1]
He founded the Tipiak agri-food group, partially based on the flour mills of Camille Groult, his grandfather, a famous painting collector, in Vitry sur Seine. He also became managing director of the Compagnie du Bénin.
He successively became treasurer, vice-president and member of the office of the European Movement-France in 1958. He was founder of the Action Committee for the European Union, of which he became president, as well as of the Association for Civil Concord and the Brotherhood in the Balkans.[2]
Awards
He is decorated with the Legion of Honour, the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945, the Academic Palms, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bronze Star.
Books
- Elise (1978)
Sources
- Henri Froment-Meurice, In memoriam : Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), un européen, 2007.