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Guy Crescent
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Guy Crescent

French businessman (1920–1996)

Guy Crescent (10 June 1920 – 16 October 1996) was a French businessman. He was the president of transport company Calberson from 1963 to 1985, and of football club Paris Saint-Germain in 1971, which he helped create a year prior.2

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Born Jun 10, 1920, died Oct 16, 1996.1

Companies

Early life and education

Early life

Guy Crescent was born on 10 June 1920 in Paris. He was diagnosed with polio at the age of three months.

He completed eight years of mecanotherapy and rehabilitation, and as a result was able to walk for the first time at the age of twelve.

Education and World War II

Crescent completed his secondary schooling at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and subsequently joined the Paris Law Faculty. His studies were interrupted by World War II. He eventually obtained the Baccalauréat and a law degree.

Due to his disability, Crescent was exempt from military duties, but joined the Alliance network in the French Resistance by February 1941. He completed missions in Germany, on behalf of the special services in September 1944 until June 1945, seconded to the Third United States Army.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.7

Personal life

  • BornJun 10, 1920, Paris8
  • DiedOct 16, 1996, Paris9
  • CitizenshipFrance10

Crescent has a son named Bruno.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedHonour medal for work service11
  • Date not recordedKnight of the Legion of Honour11
  • Date not recordedKnight of the National Order of Merit11
  • Date not recordedOfficer of the Legion of Honour11

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