Guy de Rothschild
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| Born |
Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild 21 May 1909 Paris, France |
| Died | 12 June 2007 (aged 98) Paris, France |
| Residence |
Château de Ferrières Hôtel Lambert |
| Education |
Lycée Condorcet Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Occupation | Soldier, financier, philanthropist, racehorse owner/breeder |
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| Spouse(s) |
Alix Hermine Schey de Koromla (m. 1937; div. 1956) Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (m. 1957; d. 1996) |
| Children |
with Schey de Koromla: with van Zuylen van Nyevelt: two stepdaughters:
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| Parent(s) | Édouard A. J. de Rothschild Germaine Alice Halphen |
| Honors | Croix de Guerre |
with Schey de Koromla:
with van Zuylen van Nyevelt:
two stepdaughters:
Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (pronounced: [baʁɔ̃ ɡi edwaːʁt‿alfɔ̃s pɔl də ʁɔt.ʃild]; 21 May 1909 – 12 June 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1985.
Baron Guy de Rothschild was born in Paris, the son of Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868–1949) and his wife, the former Germaine Alice Halphen (1884–1975). He has three siblings. Guy's elder brother, Édouard Alphonse Émile Lionel (1906–1911), died at the age of four of appendicitis; he also had two younger sisters, Jacqueline and Bethsabée. Half of his great-grandparents were Rothschilds. He was a great-great grandson of the German patriarch of the Rothschild family Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743–1812), who founded the family's banking in the 18th century in Frankfurt, Germany.
He grew up at his parents' townhouse on the corner of the rue de Rivoli and the Place de la Concorde in Paris (a property once occupied by Talleyrand and now the United States Embassy) and their country estate at Château de Ferrières, 25 miles north-east of Paris. Château de Ferrières is a massive house built to a design by Joseph Paxton in the 1850s, based on Paxton's earlier design of Mentmore Towers for Baron Mayer de Rothschild of the English branch of the Rothschild family.
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