Jacqueline Piatigorsky
| Jacqueline Piatigorsky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild November 6, 1911 Paris, France |
| Died | July 15, 2012 (aged 100) Brentwood, Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | French American |
| Spouse(s) |
Robert Calmann-Levy (m. 1930; div. 1935) Gregor Piatigorsky (m. 1937) |
| Children | Jephta Piatigorsky (b. 1937) Joram Piatigorsky (b. 1940) |
| Parent(s) | Édouard de Rothschild and Germaine Alice Halphen |
Jacqueline Piatigorsky (November 6, 1911 – July 15, 2012) was a French-born American chess and tennis player, author, sculptor, philanthropist, and arts patron. She was a member of the Rothschild banking family of France.
The daughter of the wealthy and influential banker, Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild, and Germaine Alice Halphen, she was the sister of Guy de Rothschild and Bethsabée de Rothschild. She was born in Paris, France. De Rothschild was raised in the Château de Ferrières in the country in Île-de-France, and at a home in the city in what is known as the "Talleyrand Building," a mansion at 2 rue Saint-Florentin that today is part of the United States Embassy complex in Paris.
According to her 1988 memoir, Jump in the Waves, her parents were cold and distant and left her upbringing to an indifferent nanny. As a result, she grew into a timid, near-reclusive, young woman who at age 19 married publisher Robert Calmann-Levy (1899–1982), a distant relative. This marriage ended after five years in 1935, and two years later she married the renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Their daughter Jephta was born in France in 1937.
The family had to flee France in the wake of the Nazi occupation during World War II. De Rothschild and her husband settled in Elizabethtown, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains where their son Joram was born in 1940. They lived in Philadelphia for several years, before moving to Los Angeles in 1949, where her husband taught at the University of Southern California.
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