The scene takes place at the end of the 1980s, in a large apartment on Avenue Montaigne, in Paris.
Olivier Dassault, who has made a specialty of telephone waiting music, receives a visit from Philippe Marini, the mayor (LR) of Compiègne (Oise), who then begins his very first mandate.
"It was a real recording studio, with all possible and imaginable equipment," recalls the former senator from Oise.
He knew how to do everything.
He composed something festive, with sounds that evoke the forest, hunting, nature… ”The result seduces the young city councilor to the point that he will make it“ the anthem of Compiègne ”which still resonates during local events. , like the evening of July 14.
Composer, musician, photographer, pilot, captain of industry… Olivier Dassault, deputy for Oise, died Sunday in a helicopter crash at the age of 69, was an insatiable jack of all trades.
The inauguration of the Vulcania Park, the music of Futuroscope, the fireworks of the Year 2000 in Paris
"A man who had many strings on his bow," slips Olivier Paccaud, senator (LR) from Oise, who was his parliamentary attaché for twenty years.
It is an artistic side that he got from his maternal grandparents.
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Author of numerous film soundtracks, Serge Dassault's son is also passionate about setting music for major festivals and celebrations.
The inauguration of the Vulcania Park, in Auvergne, or the music of the Futuroscope in Poitiers?
It's him.
The sounds that accompany the fireworks of the year 2000 in Paris?
Him again.
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A prolific composer, Olivier Dassault is also a renowned photographer, with 13 photo books published as well as numerous exhibitions in France and abroad.
A passion that he developed as a teenager after winning his first competition at the age of 16.
"He was a big man, with wide open eyes"
“He was overwhelmed by his passion, recalls Céline Dupont, painter who met him during an exhibition in Beauvais in 2014. He was my savior, my mentor, my art godfather.
He was crazy about light, he photographed everything.
He was a tall man, with wide open eyes… ”
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Eyes that he keeps wide open when he travels the roads of his first district of Oise.
"On the roads, when there was a particular light, he would stop to take a picture," resumes Olivier Paccaud.
It could be for a landscape, a stone, a brick… He liked beauty in general.
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The rifle and the camera slung
Its case is never very far either when it swaps the costume of the politician for that of the hunter.
"He was a hunting lover who could put down the rifle to make a beautiful photo," remembers Christian Jacob, the boss of the Republicans and an old friend of the deputy for Oise.
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Hunting enthusiast, Olivier Dassault regularly visited his area of Coignières (Yvelines) and its some 750 hectares of forests.
"There, the custom was that at lunchtime, there was a round table where each guest spoke to tell an anecdote about the Dassault family, recalls Pierre Charon, the senator (LR) of Paris and former parliamentary assistant… to the grandfather, Marcel Dassault.
"He was the only child to be a true pilot"
When he is not crisscrossing the Picardy Plateau, camera slung over his shoulder, it is on the side of the Dassault Aviation company headquarters in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) that the older brother of the four children occasionally goes.
Although a director of Dassault Aviation, the deputy for Oise had long since given up taking the lead.
"He was appreciated here, even if he did not come often", blows on the spot an engineer who has 25 years of house on the clock.
“The kind of man who easily shakes hands, simple and approachable, assures another.
He has a good image here because he was the only one of the children who was really a pilot.
In an aviation company, that means a lot to be appreciated!
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