Noémie de Rothschild

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Noémie de Rothschild (née Halphen; June 29, 1888 – March 15, 1968) was a French philanthropist and property developer.

Noémie de Rothschild
Born
Noémie Halphen

29 June 1888
Paris, France
Died15 March 1968 (1968-03-16) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Philanthropist, developer
Spouse
(m. 1909; died 1957)
ChildrenEdmond Adolphe de Rothschild
Parent(s)Jules Halphen
Marie Rodrigues-Péreire
RelativesEugène Halphen (paternal grandfather)
Eugène Péreire (maternal grandfather)
Edmond James de Rothschild (father-in-law)

Early life

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Noémie de Rothschild was born as Noémie Halphen on 29 June 1888 in Paris, France to Jules Halphen and Marie Hermine Rodrigues-Péreire.[1] She was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.

Career

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Rothschild turned her hôtel particulier in Paris into a hospital during World War I.[1] In 1916, she decided to develop a ski resort in France to avoid having to holiday alongside the Germans in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1][2] By 1919, she founded Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne.[1]

 
Domaine du Mont d'Arbois.

Rothschild developed the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, a luxury hotel in Mont d'Arbois near Megève in Haute-Savoie.[3] It was completed in 1921.[1]

Personal life and death

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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.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Noémie de Rothschild". Stations de sports d'hiver. La Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Coppier, Julien (2014). "Le tourisme en Savoie, construction d'une économie dans le temps long". In Bonin, Hubert; Bouvier, Yves; Varaschin, Denis (eds.). Histoire économique et sociale de la Savoie de 1860 à nos jours. Genève: Librarie Droz. pp. 457–482. ISBN 9782600018289. OCLC 903545560 – via Cairn.info.
  3. ^ Tixier, Maud (2010). "Comparaison de l'Usage d'Internet par les stations de ski internationales haut de gamme pour promouvoir leur positionnement et se différencier". Humanisme et Entreprise (in French). 5 (300): 17–36. doi:10.3917/hume.300.0017.