Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
on March 6, 1821, to a Jewish family of
Sephardic
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(Spanish-Portuguese) ancestry.
Cecile's father, Élie Furtado, was the eldest son of Joseph Furtado, a financier and shipowner from
and the nephew of Abraham Furtado. Elie Furtado was a banker in Paris and the representative of Bayonne's constituency at Paris' central consistory. His uncle, Abraham Furtado served as secretary to
Napoleon Bonaparte
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's "
Grand Sanhedrin
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Rocquencourt Rocquencourt refers to two places in France:
* Rocquencourt, Yvelines
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, near
Versailles
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. Her maternal uncle,
Achille Fould
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Frankfurt
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banker Charles Heine (1810
Hamburg
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Salomon Heine
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and cousin of the German poet
Heinrich Heine
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Red Cross
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and organized an ambulance service for the repatriation of the wounded. In 1884, she created an annuity for a children's hospice in the 14th Arrondissement. The street where this establishment is located has been called Furtado-Heine Street since 1897. She financed other establishments, including a nursery school in the city of
Montrouge
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Nice
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Pasteur Institute
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Felix Faure
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, ministers and the municipality of Paris. Zadoc Kahn, the chief rabbi of France, gave the eulogy at her funeral.