Jean Frédéric André Poupart, 4th Baron of Neuflize CVO (21 August 1850 – 20 September 1928) was a French

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and

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. He received recognition with his appointment as an officer of the

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Early life

Neuflize was born in Paris on 21 August 1850 into the prominent minority Protestant establishment of France. He was the eldest son of Jean André Poupart de Neuflize, 3rd Baron of Neuflize (1820–1868), and his wife, Marie Louise André (1826–1907). His great-grandfather, Jean Abraham Poupart de Neuflize (who was made the first Baron of Neuflize in 1810), built the Château de Montvillers in 1770 in Bazeilles in the

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region of northern France. He was educated at the

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, followed by the Lycée Bonaparte.

Career

Neuflize, a banker, succeeded his father as the head of the Banque de Neuflize et Cie in Paris, which had been founded in 1710 by his great-grandfather Jean Abraham Poupart de Neuflize, a draper from

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, and traced its lineage to seventeenth century

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. His family's bank was among the most prominent banking houses of France, which included the

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and Vernes banks. He was succeeded in the bank by his second son, Jacques, who was the representative of the Banque de French in America during

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. From 1902 until his death in 1928, he was a Regent of

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, the

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of France, and was serving as Dean of Regents at the time of his death. In 1904, he helped established the French investment bank

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. He was also vice president of Paris, Lyons & Marseilles Railway, chairman of the board of directors of the Ottoman Bank, and president of the Évian Mineral Water Society.

Equestrian

In June 1900, Neuflize was awarded third place in the four-in-hand (mail coach) driving event during the International Horse Show in Paris. The show was part of the Exposition Universelle, and the equestrian events were later classified as part of the

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Personal life

On 28 April 1874, Neuflize was married to Madeleine Dolfuss-Davilliers (1855–1926). She was born in

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and was a daughter of Mathieu Dollfus and Laure Cécile Davillier, and granddaughter of industrialist

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. In Paris, they lived at 7 Rue Alfred-de-Vigny, a

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in the 8th arrondissement, Together, they were the parents of three children: * André Poupart de Neuflize (1875–1949), who in 1903 married American heiress Eva Barbey (1879–1969), a daughter of Henry Isaac Barbey and Mary Lorillard Barbey and sister of Hélène Barbey (who married Count

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). * Jacques Poupart de Neuflize (1883–1953), a banker who married Alixe Coche de la Ferté (1893–1923), a daughter of Alexandre Coche de la Ferté. After her death, he married Antoinette Meyer-Borel (d. 1942). * Roberte Poupart de Neuflize (1892–1979), who married

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, the son of

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, in 1912. In 1897, he built the Château des Tilles, a large Norman villa near Coye-la-Forêt in the

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department in northern France near

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. Neuflize was appointed a chevalier of the

in 1900, and an officer in 1908. The Baron de Neuflize died on 20 September 1928 at Coye-la-Forêt. His funeral was held at the

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where he was buried.

Descendants

Through his eldest son, André, he was a grandfather of Jacqueline de Neuflize, who married Baron Jean de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris in 1937, Marie Madeleine de Neuflize, who married the Baron Christian de Turckheim (and resided at Château de Blanant in

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), and Genevieve de Neuflize (1907–1938), who married Count Costa de Beauregard (later the Marquis de Beauregard), the son of Ferdinand Costa, Marquis de Beauregard. Through his daughter, the Countess of Bessborough, he was a grandfather of four, including: Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913–1993), the Hon. Desmond Neuflize Ponsonby (1915–1925), who died young, Lady Moyra Ponsonby (1918–2016), and Lt. Hon. George St Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby (1931–1951).

References

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External links

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A Very Noble Pair: Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough & Roberte Poupart de Neuflize
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