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Élie de Rothschild
Baron + Banker
Male
Born
May 29, 1917
Hometown
Paris
Died
Aug 6, 2007
Death Place
Scharnitz
Nationality
France
Baron Élie de Rothschild was a French banker, a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1917
Birth
Born on May 29, 1917.
TWENTIES
1940
23 Years Old
He and his brother served as officers in a cavalry regiment—the Anciens 11èmes Cuirassiers—when Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940.
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1942
25 Years Old
While in Colditz, Élie had written to his childhood sweetheart Baroness Liliane Fould-Springer (a future grandaunt of Helena Bonham Carter) and asked her to marry him, which they did by proxy by 1942 - Élie being allowed to take his marriage vows while imprisoned.
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1946
29 Years Old
Élie and his brother assisted their cousin, Guy de Rothschild, to rebuild the de Rothschild Frères investment bank, and its Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord subsidiary. Élie took charge of Château Lafite-Rothschild, the premier cru Pauillac vineyard in the Médoc, in 1946, which he owned jointly with Alain, Guy and their English cousin Jimmy de Rothschild. Élie became president of the family's Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) in 1956, diversifying into hotels, motels and restaurants. Élie was a friend of Prince Aly Khan and Gianni Agnelli. In 1954, when Liliane was out of town, Élie was introduced to divorcee Pamela Churchill (later Pamela Harriman).
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FIFTIES
1974
57 Years Old
His nephew Eric de Rothschild, son of Alain, took over at Château Lafite-Rothschild in 1974.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2007
90 Years Old
Died on August 6, 2007.
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