title: Jacques Servier
text: # Jacques Servier
  
  Jacques Servier (9 February 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a French doctor and businessman. He was the founder and president of Laboratoires Servier, a pharmaceutical company.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion.
  
  The group led by him, Servier, had been convicted several times to pay damages for Mediator, trade name of benfluorex. There was a class action also for Isoméride, trade name of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex.
  
  ## Decorations
  
  * Legion of Honour
     * Knight (1976)
     * Officer (1 December 1987; by Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin)
     * Commander (31 December 1992; by Minister for Foreign Trade Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
     * Grand Officer (25 March 2002; by President Jacques Chirac)
     * Grand Cross (31 December 2008; by President Nicolas Sarkozy)
  * National Order of Merit
     * Officer (1981)
     * Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
  * Ordre des Palmes Académiques
     * Knight (1980)
     * Officer (1996)
  