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Guy De Rothschild (1909–2007)

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ROTHSCHILD, Guy DE
DE ROTHSCHILD, Guy
Syntymäaika
1909-05-21
Kuolinaika
2007-06-12
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
France
Syntymäpaikka
Paris, France
Kuolinpaikka
Paris, France
Asuinpaikat
Paris, France
Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne, France
New York, New York, USA
Koulutus
Lycée Condorcet
Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France
Ammatit
banker
memoirist
army officer
racehorse breeder
art collector
philanthropist (näytä kaikki 7)
wine grower
Suhteet
Piatigorsky, Jacqueline (sister)
Organisaatiot
De Rothschild Frères
Château Lafite Rothschild
Banque de France
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Croix de Guerre
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Baron Guy de Rothschild was born in Paris, the son of Baron Édouard de Rothschild of the famous banking dynasty and his wife Germaine Alice Halphen.

His sisters were Jacqueline Piatigorsky and Bethsabée de Rothschild. He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis-le-Grand and by private tutors. After attending law school, Baron Guy began working at De Rothschild Frères, the family bank, in 1931. In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, he was called up to serve as a cavalry officer. He won the Croix de Guerre for his service in northern France before joining the British retreat from Dunkirk. He returned immediately to France and was demobilized after the French army was defeated by Nazi Germany in World War II. He then took charge of the family’s office at La Bourbale, near Clermont-Ferrand.

Under the Vichy government, the family was forced to sell its possessions. He managed to persuade the buyers to grant options under which he would later be able to buy the family's interests back. In 1941, Baron Guy and his wife left France for New York City, where his parents had already relocated. He joined General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Forces and in March 1943, boarded the cargo ship Pacific Grove to travel back to Europe. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans in the North Atlantic; Baron Guy was rescued after spending 12 hours in the sea. In England, he joined the staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

After Paris was liberated in 1944, Baron Guy reconstructed the family’s banking and business empire. The bank diversified from investment management to the deposit-taking Banque de Rothschild, with branches throughout France. He served as its president from 1968 to 1978.

Baron Guy was also celebrated for the family wine business, Château Lafite Rothschild, as well as for breeding thoroughbred racehorses. He was also a well-known and respected Jewish philanthropist. He restored the Château de Ferrières, the vast family country home where he had been raised, and gained new prominence holding extravagant costume balls and dinners. In 1975, he donated the Château de Ferrières to the University of Paris. He wrote a novel, Le fantôme de Léa (1998). and two volumes of memoirs, Contre bonne fortune (The Whims of Fortune, 1983) and Mon ombre siamoise (My Siamese Shadow, 1993).

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« Juif sous Pétain, paria sous Mitterrand, pour moi cela suffit. Rebâtir sur les décombres deux fois dans ma vie, c'est trop. »
 
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Ambroise7021 | 1 muu arvostelu | Jan 14, 2014 |
2572 The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild (read 22 Jan 1994) The author is the great-great-great grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), founder of the House. These memoirs were published in 1985 and and are well worth reading. The author fought for France in 1940, was evacuated from Dunkirk, then returned to France! He left France in 1941, came to New York, and joined the Free French in England--after his ship was torpedoed on the way over. The Rothschild bank in France was nationalized in 1982 and he has a last bitter chapter on that. The book includes chapters on his horse racing interests and on balls his second wife put on in 1971 and 1972. Those chapters were quite boring. He brags some, but all in all I didn't mind.… (lisätietoja)
 
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