Maurice de Rothschild

Maurice de Rothschild
Born	(1881-05-19)May 19, 1881 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Died	Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland
Residence	Hôtel de Pontalba, Château d'Armainvilliers, Château de Pregny
Occupation	Financier, politician, art collector, philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Noémie Halphen
Children	Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques
Parent(s)	Edmond James de Rothschild & Adelheid von Rothschild

Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (May 19, 1881 – September 4, 1957) was an art collector, vineyard owner, financier, Senator of France, and one of the most financially successful members of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. The second child of Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934) and Adelheid von Rothschild (1853–1935), he was born in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris and raised there at the Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt.

Maurice de Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless fr (1823-1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.

In 1909 Maurice de Rothschild married Noémie Claire Alice Palmyre Halphen (1888–1968). Her mother was Marie Hermine Rodrigues Péreire (1860–1936), daughter of Eugène Péreire of the Péreire banking family whose Crédit Mobilier were arch-competitors of the Rothschilds. Noémie Halphen and Maurice de Rothschild had one child, a son Edmond.

In June 1940, during the Battle of France, Rothschild and several family members received Portuguese visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes, allowing them to flee France for Portugal. Maurice de Rothschild sailed from Lisbon to Scotland the following month.

References

• The Rothschilds; a Family Portrait by Frederic Morton. Atheneum Publishers (1962) ISBN 978-1568362205 (1998 reprint)
• The Rothschilds, a Family of Fortune by Virginia Cowles. Alfred A. Knopf (1973) ISBN 978-0297765387
• Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty by Derek Wilson. Scribner, London (1988) ISBN 978-0684190181
• House of Rothschild : Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson. Viking Press (1998) ISBN 978-0140240849
• The House of Rothschild (vol. 2) : The World's Banker: 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson. Viking Press (1999) ISBN 978-0670887941

External links

• The Rothschild Archive - an international cente in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.