It disturbs them confirms a collaborator

We can not imagine the collateral damage of social conflicts. The day of my meeting with the Baroness Ariane of Rothschild, the powerful Vice-President of the Edmond de Rothschild holding, I pass through Paris feet - or means of transport - under the cries of demonstrators angry: ' Y' has enough! " ENOUGH! ENOUGH of this society that fattens the shareholders and turns the employees! Y' HAS ENOUGH!

It is therefore endoctrinée, full slogans head, that I have the luxury premises of one of the major private independent European banks which now operates the wife of Benjamin de Rothschild, 12th France fortune. In the elevator, I feel ready to blow the Bank... SHARING THE WEALTH! Social equality! Or it will péter! CA VA PETER! But this, like Woody Allen, I am well Marxist, Yes, but trend Groucho, and when I find myself before Ariane de Rothschild, heroin mystery to the relaxed ways, all my revolutionary inclinations fall. I enter with a Kalashnikov rifle, I am leaving a rose in hand.

On the walls of his Office hushed, a photograph of Isabel Muñoz representing a El Salvador mara, a tattooed gang leader and that it would not like to cross in an alleyway after 23 hours. Taste for provocation In the stark world of high finance, Ariane de Rothschild décoiffe. There is this blonde and deaf-mute woman a transgressive audacity, a wild natural, a lack of control that crystallizes a language spontaneity that it barely believe that it is made because it exposes him to the distrust, ridicule, to what it calls a laughing "polished contempt". "Ariane is cash", said her a collaborator. Too much persiflent those who greeted with hostility the arrival of this powered woman, alongside her husband - the richest of the Rothschild - the head of a group which manages 100 billion EUR assets and, from Paris, Geneva and Luxembourg, is deployed in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.

It must be said that the tremendous ascent of this quadragénaire, was born in the El Salvador under the name of Langner, German father who worked for a multinational company and a French mother who raised pigs in Colombia, a surprise. Of his childhood in Bangladesh, in Colombia, in the Congo, it kept the taste for travel and an open mind that contrasts with the ambient conformism. After having completed his schooling in Africa and obtained a baccalauréat D, she arrived in Paris to a prépa HEC. Culture shock is immense: "In Africa, there was a warmth that I have not found." It bifurcates to Sciences Po: "This was not my way of thinking." Then she fled Paris, moved to New York where she obtained an MBA and worked as a foreign currency trader with Société générale, before joining the American AIG insurance group that the returns... in France. Elle is 28 years old and works 12 hours a day. "I was very wise, very pro", she said. Not the kind to identify with Marilyn Monroe in how to marry a billionaire. Then resembles a novel water rose that could sign Barbara Cartland, even if we guess that this image it annoys, both Ariane de Rothschild seems committed to freedom and independence.

In 1993, in Paris, she works with one of the companies of Benjamin de Rothschild, only son of baron Edmond and his wife, actress Nadine Tallier. His interlocutor organizes a meeting... failed. That day, "Benjamin arrived with its jean crotté". It chaperonnée by her mother who arrived from Rome, it keeps the first interview that the image of a man "gruff". But Benjamin de Rothschild the recalls and gives him go home this time, in the lavish mansion of the family, located rue de l ' Elysée. It tells you this episode in imitation of her husband, suddenly taking a serious voice - mocking, loving. That night, he received... in his bathroom and takes him dinner on a barge. "We are remaining taped", she says. But billionaire does not pass him for the ring finger... When she announces the news of his romance to his parents, they say: "Oh!" my poor! "Finally, it will become officially Baroness while she is pregnant with her second daughter. Two other girls born...

"A Rothschild who is not rich, not Jewish, not philanthropist, not banker, not worker and who does not have a certain train of life, is not a real Rothschild," said baron Edmond. Ariane is to convert yet not Judaism. Her daughters, she left free to choose... Although... as he has put his eldest daughter: "When it is called Rothschild, it cannot be that Jewish."

She recalls with emotion of his father-in-law, who died in 1997, with which she dined face-to-face. "He said:"It is what we are doing."" He impressed me much. He had no a priori of social class. It was a true Aesthete. "We feel crab-wise in it a certain pride, devoid of arrogance, the idea to be part of this line internationally known, whose name evokes power and wealth:"it's fascinating, there is the weight of the past. It

must be equal to those that preceded you. "It is without a doubt, that evokes the best family values - unity, integrity, business - who forged the dynasty for seven generations and repeat them words that reassure:"respect","moral","sustainability ".

She applied the advice of his mother-in-law, the Baroness Nadine of Rothschild, also unforgettable best-selling author, wife one day, women always or even good manners, to persuade his son of pass the reins of the company "My mother-in-law responded moderately", loose. And it is not the only one. The other Parisian branch of the Rothschild, led by David, would have allowed with a certain reserve this "insert". "The Rothschilds are very conservative, says a close. For some members of the family, women should stay home and take care of the children. "But if Ariane enjoys spending his free time with his four daughters, she is not to fade behind a human woman. "I wanted to work!" and it quickly understand her husband by asking this ultimatum: "Or in your bank or another."

Long responsible for non-financial activities of the group, it is, since 2009, Vice-President of the family holding company. Then, intriguing or modern woman She confess with a hint of bitterness: "my approach has been poorly understood". The reactions have been excessively misogynist. People are trying to find incentives to unhealthy. "There are those who suspect the want to take control of the Group and others scoffed its status of" wife of ", referring to his lack of experience. "I don't want to not take the place of Benjamin." They do not include the confidence and freedom it affords me. We are an atypical couple. "Here lies the secret of their success: he, heir hyperdoué according to colleagues, the brilliant but uncontrollable, passionate financial sailing and racing cars. She the wife more structured, more reliable, "good student" fanciful as it defines itself. "If it had no jurisdiction, I I would have not put it there", argue her husband. How to prepare the women succession "Benjamin repeated me:"You do you realize not the weight that is, there are days where it's horrible".". A few years later, it confirms: "you have a relative freedom, it is responsible for 3,000 people.

But other captains also lead the boat: "the Office of Michel Cicurel - the spirited Chairman of the Executive Board of the group - is eight meters from his own", said a close. "Enter a board room and being the only woman is impressive, she says, but I love affairs." Its role "Working to create real synergies between the entities of the group", even if she recognises that she faces reluctant. "They feel threatened", she said. "It disturbs them, confirms a collaborator. Ariane is a dynamic, fast advance and strong; Sometimes it breaks a little porcelain. "Stubborn, energetic, it is now also President of the Supervisory Board of BeCitizen, a financial environment and strategic consulting firm, and is dedicated to family foundations related to art, health and research, (between Jews and Muslims) intercultural dialogue and social entrepreneurship, not to mention the wine properties management of group.

Always between two aircraft, often in Israel where it supports academic research projects, Ariane de Rothschild seems indefatigable. "I am a hyperactive hysterical!" she says of abruptly if it looks like suddenly mounted on spring. This spontaneity, it in fact now his trademark, giving the image of a woman against the grain of leather and listening to rap. But does not too when she says that his greatest pleasure is to walk barefoot in the Bush, she who elected domicile in a huge Castle in Switzerland "People pass the door and it's damn", admits it, before specifying that "money distorts relations." "You have to protect".

On the crisis, we feel tense to the: "we paid the invoice of the banks who made anything." The banks have few ethics. People are insatiable; they do not have a long-term vision so everything explodes. Should return to a reasonable profit, find a balance. Yes, it should move towards a more responsible capitalism.

Outside, the tempers still: "it is not the undocumented, it is not the immigrants, but it is capitalism that ruined, which ruins, ruin society."

November 1965: Birth of Ariane Langner to San El Salvador.

1988-1990: MBA in finance and financial management of the private University Pace (New York).

Financial analyst and foreign currency trader at Société générale in Australia and then in New York.

1990-1995: Cambiste in the U.S. insurer AIG, then responsible for development in Europe and in the Parisian subsidiary France.

1993: Meet Benjamin of Rothschid that she would marry on January 23, 1999.

2007: Seat in all the boards of Directors of the group.

2008: Member of the Supervisory Board of the private Bank Edmond Rothschild and the holding company of the group.

November 2009: Becomes the holding company of the Group Vice-President Edmond de Rothschild.