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Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild

Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild

Male 1926 - 1997  (71 years)    Has 26 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild 
    Prefix Baron 
    Birth 1926 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1997 
    Person ID I303217  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2001 

    Father Baron Maurice de Rothschild,   b. 1881   d. 1957 (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Noémie Halphen,   b. 1888   d. 1968 (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 1909 
    Family ID F121641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Living 
    Family ID F121848  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2001 

    Family 2 Living 
    Children 
    +1. Living
    Family ID F121849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2001 

  • Notes 
    • The principal owner and controlling power in Megeve; it admits very rich champagne manufacturers of any nationality.

      Edmond inherited tremendously and tremendously expanded his inheritance. Unaffiliated with the Family bank, he is faithful enough to Family discretion to keep the portals of No.45, rue du Faubourg St. Honore signless and anonymous. Here the young, shirt-sleeved Baron directs a staff of 150 executives and assistants, "my main business den." From this headquarters he runs the Compagnie Financiere, a worldwide organization which builds villas, hotels, pipelines in Israel; throws up giant housing projects in Paris (over one thousand apartments so far); backs Continent, the international European news weekly;
      finances banks and car factories in Brazil. It was Edmond who led The Family into fields hitherto seldom associated with its name. If Rothschild could cope with the tax-oppressed, traffic-ridden, television-happy and radioactive aspects of the midcentury, why not also deal with the new travel mania? It will be remembered that Baroness Maurice's pet project had been the development of Megeve into France's most elegant Alpine resort. Her properties here included the Mont d'Arbois, a hotel of Rothschildian sumptuousness. In the 1950's her son Edmond decided to turn hobby into industry. He greatly enlarged the Family holdings on the slopes of Mont Blanc, and is now building an ultrachic new pleasure landscape complete with ski lifts, swimming pools, tennis courts and night clubs.
      He also underwrites and develops not merely hotels but entire new tourist regions in Martinique and Guadalupe in the French Caribbean. With Lord Rothschild as partner, he is responsible for the flowering of Israel's luxury golf resort at Caesarea.
      To put it crassly, Edmond is the richest Rothschild and probably the most multiple millionaire in Europe. This amiable young carrot-top (remember his redheaded great-grandfather James?), who can choose to rusticate in either of two fairytale chateaux---one in Switzerland and one in France---and who numbers among his town residences Rubirosa's former house in Paris, is creating still another splendid roof for himself at rue Elysee. There is more evidence that today the mishpoche is not selling but acquiring mansions. In the rue de Courcelles Edmond's cousin Guy has just remodeled an eighteenth-century house into a new Rothschild palace. Lord Rothschild will shortly move into a new house at Cambridge. London's N. M. Rothschild & Sons has grown too big for the big old edifice at New Court; just recently the firm has taken over a floor in a new office building to accommodate the dividend department.
      And the rosewood-and-flowered-porcelain bidets of Ferrieres have come into their own again. Guy has done more than reconnect the plumbing, though. After six years of renovation, he has restored this foremost tower of the clan to its full anachronistic glory. The dimensions of the demesne are as exorbitant as ever. It still covers nearly 9,000 prime suburban acres; with a farming population of 600. Twelve highly motorized gardeners supervise a horizonful of parks and pleasure lakes. Five full-time foresters patrol the shoots.
      The private zoo is gone because the Germans kidnaped the animals. Gone, too, is the train which brought food from the kitchen building to the chateau through an underground tunnel; our spoilsport century moved the chefs into the main building.
      But otherwise this incredible pleasure dome is once more itself. Even the cloakroom by the entrance has recovered its frivolity: cartoons of the current mishpoche paper its walls. Other lampoons, mainly familial (with notable exceptions, such as a ruthlessly faithful portrait of Elsa Maxwell), decorate the adjoining silk-lined lavatory where, as a Family member put it, "they can be perused in comfort and leisure."
      Inside the chateau itself the age of Watteau reigns unstinted. The landscaped succession of imperial salons; the chandeliers, hanging gardens made of crystal and fretted gold; the panoramic expanses of jeweled guest suite after guest suite; the profusion of precious textures: Gobelin, gold inlay, ivory, tortoise shell; the luster of the walls alternated by the idyll beyond the windows---swans rippling fountained lakes; the bathroom faucets of solid silver.



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