Noémie de Rothschild (née Halphen; June 29, 1888 – March 15, 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 to Jules Halphen and Marie Hermine Rodrigues-Péreire. She was the granddaughter of financier

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-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.

Career

Rothschild turned her

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in Paris into a hospital during

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. In 1916, she decided to develop a ski resort in France to avoid having to holiday alongside the Germans in

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, Switzerland. By 1919, she founded Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne. Rothschild developed the

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, a luxury hotel in

Mont d'Arbois Mont d'Arbois is a mountain of Haute-Savoie, France. It lies in the Beaufortain Massif range, at an altitude of 1833 metres above sea level. History The Mont d'Arbois is home to the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, developed by Noémie de Rothschild ...

near

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. It was completed in 1921.

Personal life and death

She married

Maurice de Rothschild Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France. Early life Maurice de Rothschild was born on 19 ...

, a banker and politician. They had a son,

Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild or Baron Edmond de Rothschild (30 September 1926 – 2 November 1997) was a French-Swiss banker, the founder of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 1953. His investments extended to vineyards ...

. She died on 15 March 1968 in Paris.

References

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