David David-Weill

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David David-Weill (August 30, 1871 – July 7, 1952) was a French-American banker, chairman of Lazard Frères in Paris, who built an important collection of art. His collection was plundered by the Nazis during the Second World War and over 2000 items seized. He was a major donor to French and American museums and galleries and a benefactor to universities. David-Weill went into hiding at the Roquegauthier Castle in Cancon, France after German's invasion of France in 1940. By 1942, David and Flora David‐Weill relocated to Agen, where they hid in the home of a friend and assumed the surname Warnier. After the War, David and Flora David‐Weill returned to Neuilly, where they restored their home and continued their philanthropic efforts David-Weill was born in San Francisco on 30 August 1871. He was the son of Julie (née Cahn) and Alexandre Weill (1834–1906). His father was a cousin to the three French Jewish brothers who founded Lazard Frères & Co. His parents had left France in 1870 because of the Franco-Prussian War, and settled in California, where Raphaël Weill, a brother of Alexandre Weill, lived. They returned to France about 1883. David-Weill continued his education there at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques.