Nathaniel de Rothschild

Nathaniel de Rothschild ( born July 2, 1812 in London, † February 19, 1870 in Paris) known as Nat, was the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family.

Life

Nathaniel Rothschild was the fourth child and third son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) and Hannah Cohen ( 1783-1850 ). In 1842, married Nathaniel de Rothschild Charlotte de Rothschild ( 1825-1899 ), daughter of James Mayer Rothschild. From their marriage the following children were born:

• Nathalie de Rothschild (1843-1843)
• James -Edouard de Rothschild (1844-1881)
• Albert Mayer de Rothschild (1846-1850)
• Arthur de Rothschild (1851-1903)

The family intercourse with numerous artists, including Frédéric Chopin, Charlotte de Rothschild Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2 dedicated.

In 1850 the family moved to Paris, where Nathaniel stood by his uncle and father- in bank de Rothschild Frères.

In 1853 he bought the Château Brane Mouton. The estate lies in Pauillac in Bordeaux vineyards he took over from the Paris banker Isaac Thuret, who had the good of his hand taken in 1830 by Baron Hector de Branne. Nathaniel Rothschild paid 1,175,000 francs for the property and renamed it the now famous Château Mouton- Rothschild.

In 1856, Nathaniel and his wife bought the property in Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honoré 33 At that time, the building functioned as the seat of the Russian Embassy in Paris. When the lease with the embassy in 1864 ended, Rothschild had the building renovated and made ​​it his residence in Paris.

1873, three years after his death, bought his widow, Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild ( 1825-1899 ), the ruins of the monastery Les Vaux -de- Cernay and had carried out extensive restoration work. It transformed the facility into a country house which remained in the possession of their descendants until 1945. 1926 and 1941 was carried out the classification as a monument historique.