Clément Fayat (1931/32 – 3 July 2022)Clément Fayat nous a quittés
was a French

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

entrepreneur, who founded

Fayat Group The Fayat Group is a French and international construction and industrial company. It is a family owned firm, founded in 1957 by Clément Fayat, and managed by his sons Jean-Claude Fayat and Laurent Fayat. It is structured in 7 fields of act ...

at the age of 25. At his death, his net worth was estimated at US$1.2 billion. Fayat was the son of a bricklayer, and left school at 15 to become a construction apprentice. He founded the civil engineering company

when he was 25, and it is now France's largest privately-held construction and civil engineering company, with more than 21,000 staff in 170 countries. Fayat was married and lived in

Saint-Émilion Saint-Émilion (; Gascon dialect, Gascon: ''Sent Milion'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Southwestern France. In the heart of the country of Libournais (the area around Libourne), in a regio ...

, France. He had two sons, Jean-Claude et Laurent. In 2020, together with his sons, he created the Fayat Foundation. Fayat died in July 2022, at the age of 90.

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1930s births 2022 deaths French billionaires 20th-century French businesspeople {{France-business-bio-stub