François Polge de Combret

"After just over two years in New York and having completed his American managerial experience, he turned his attention back to France. From the spring of 1984, he asked Michel Lefebvre and Pierre Godé, who had become a professor of commercial law at the University of Nice, to scout potential business acquisition files and make proposals to him. At the same time, he shared his plans with contacts he maintained in New York with two personalities: Claude Gros, who heads the IDI office in the United States, and François Polge de Combret, former Deputy Secretary General of the Élysée under Giscard d'Estaing, partner of the Lazard bank in New York."

"The main managing partners are Jean-Claude Haas, close to the industrialist Jérôme Seydoux, François Polge de Combret, former deputy secretary general of the Elysée under Giscard, Hubert Heilbronn, David Dautresme, Christian de Labriffe, close to Bernard Arnault, or Hélie de Pourtalès, in charge of the international department and government advisory, and as such, "adviser to the central committee of the Soviet Communist Party"...,"