Noémie de Rothschild

French philanthropist and property developer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench philanthropist and property developer
PlacesFrance
wasPhilanthropist
Gender
Female
Birth29 June 1888, Paris, France
Death15 March 1968Paris, France (aged 79 years)
Star signCancer
ResidenceHôtel de Pontalba, France; Château de Pregny, Switzerland
Family
Mother:Marie Péreire
Father:Jules Halphen
Spouse:Maurice de Rothschild
Children:Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild
Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour1962
The details

Biography

Baroness Noémie de Rothschild (1888-1968) was a French philanthropist and property developer.

Early life

Noémie de Rothschild was born as Noémie Halphen on 29 June 1888 in Paris, France. She was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.

Career

Rothschild turned her hôtel particulier in Paris into a hospital during World War I. In 1916, she decided to develop a ski resort in France to avoid having to holiday alongside the Germans in St. Moritz, Switzerland. By 1919, she founded Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne.

Rothschild developed the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, a luxury hotel in Mont d'Arbois near Megève in Haute-Savoie. It was completed in 1921.

Personal life and death

She married Maurice de Rothschild, a banker and politician. They had a son, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild. She died on 15 March 1968 in Paris.

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