Some names, simply pronounced, are enough to immerse you in an atmosphere, an era.
Thus that of Michel David-Weill, associated for eternity with the hectic capitalism of the 1980s and 1990s, founder of new industrial empires on both sides of the Atlantic.
The
“last emperor of Wall Street”, as
Business Week
dubbed him
in 1988, died on the night of June 16 to 17 in New York, at the age of 89.
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The story of Michel David-Weill is first and foremost that of a line of bankers.
He represented the fourth generation of founders of Lazard, the investment bank founded in the United States in 1848 by the three Lazard brothers, joined by their cousin Alexandre Weill.
These pioneers had spread their investment banking "houses" to New York, London and Paris.
Michel David-Weill brought them together in a single company at the very end of the 20th century.
He had established himself as the head of the family by becoming the president of the bank in Paris in 1975 and in New York…
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