Michel David-Weill

"In Paris, Michel David-Weill lives in a very beautiful private hotel. For his vacations and weekends, he has a choice between a house in Jamaica, another near New York, a house on the French Riviera inherited from his father where sumptuous lunches are held, a 400-hectare family property, near Paris."

""The historical mistake of the Rothschilds was that they never had an American base; a base that we at Lazard have consolidated for more than forty years. Not that Lazard-Paris isn't doing well, far from it. But New York is the "sports center." If you want to be a champion, or even a semi-champion, New York is the ultimate arena. The rest of the world is just provincial in comparison," sums up Michel David-Weill."

"A house as lesser-known as its "boss", Michel David-Weill, and its partners. But one that makes much more money than both Rothschild houses combined, the one in Paris and the one in London."

"If he is suspicious and perfectly organized, Bernard Arnault is also quick. Faced with the Dalton brothers, he decides to play Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow. He will buy the shares held by the Willot brothers. He doesn't have the necessary money? He asks Antoine Bernheim for help, but he backs out: he did not get the approval of Michel David-Weill to commit further. He himself is not very enthusiastic: why spend so much money to recover these useless shares? They are only of interest to Bernard Arnault, in a heritage context. Regardless of Lazard's reluctance! Arnault will turn to Crédit Lyonnais, always ready for adventure."

"In the 1960s, he participated in the creation of the famous "collateral structures" that allowed Lazard to expand by taking control of the holding company Rue Impériale de Lyon, Immobilière Marseillaise, Sovac of which the bank only had 5%, or the investment holding company Gaz et Eaux, still chaired today by Michel David-Weill."

"1-Financier: The Biography of André Meyer, A story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business, by Cary Reich, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1983-1997. 2-The Master of Masters by Giancarlo Galli, Garzanti, 1995. 3-These gentlemen from Lazard, by Martine Orange, Albin Michel, 2006, p. 91. 4-Ibid., p. 138. 5-These gentlemen from Lazard, op. cit., p. 48. 6-Interview with Figaro on March 20, 2008; collected statements by Sophie Fay. 7-The New Economist from March 22, 1991, investigation by Hedwige Chevrillon. 8-Ibid. 9-The Festive Spirit, by Michel David-Weill, with journalist Patricia Boyer de Latour, Robert Laffont, 2007. 10-Interview with the author. 11-The festive spirit, op. cit. 12-Financier: The Biography of André Meyer, op. cit. 13-Luxury War, the LVMH Case, by Claude Vincent and Philippe Monnin, François Bourin Editions, 1990. 14-Interview in CB News magazine on June 9, 2008. 15-Quoted in the portrait of Antoine Bernheim by Sylvie Hattemer-Lefèvre, "Il Padrone," Challenges magazine dated September 27, 2007. 16-Interview with the author on June 30, 2008. 17-See Investigation into a Capitalist beyond all Suspicion, by Nathalie Raulin and Renaud Lecadre, Denoël, 2000, p. 111. 18-In the autumn of 2010, Antoine Bernheim will get his revenge by joining the supervisory board of the "new Monde" alongside BHL and Laure Adler, the former director of France Culture... "The entire 6th arrondissement," sighs a journalist from the daily newspaper. 19-"Bolloré faces his first setback", L'Expansion, July 10, 1993. 20-These gentlemen from Lazard, op. cit., p. 48. 21-Jacques, Brother of Jesus, by Pierre-Antoine Bernheim, Albin Michel, 2003, p. 120. 22-See The Holy Alliance. The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Services, by Eric Frattini, Flammarion, 2006. Page 344: "On the list of illustrious Freemasons of the Vatican compiled by the Vatican counterintelligence service, called Sodalitium Pianum (Association of Pie), are cardinals such as Augustin Bea, Sebastiano Baggio, Agostino Casaroli, Achille Liénart, archbishop of Lille (...) or Jean Villot, secretary of state to Pope Paul VI." The file on the "Masonic tentacles" in the Roman curia remained buried. 23-CEO of the insurance group Scor, holder of a degree in economics and graduate of HEC, Denis Kessler succeeded Renaud Denoix de Saint-Marc, member of the Constitutional Council, in January 2008. 24-See interview in L'Express on February 20, 2008. 25-The Ghettos of the Jet Set: How the Bourgeoisie Defends its Spaces, Seuil, 2007."

""The art of Michel David-Weill was to keep Felix Rohatyn and Antoine Bernheim, who were the engines behind the firm, while restraining them from taking over his office,""