Word: ledrantz
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...changes in the manuscript, while they improve the continuity and the story of the Rothschild family, introduce purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone epoch; the romance between Wellington's aide...
...Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds of his own to depress the market and prevent the offering of any new ones. Thus he compels Ledrantz to assign him the whole loan, sends the market...
...matter of the loan convinces Nathan Rothschild that even in England Jews have an inferior social status, he forbids their marriage, sends Julie off to visit her grandmother (Helen Westley) in Frankfort. When he arrives there for a visit, there are riots in the Ghetto, instigated by sulky Baron Ledrantz. To save his fellow Jews from further persecution. Nathan Rothschild is almost ready to humble himself by appealing to Ledrantz when word arrives, by his secret method of communication, that Napoleon has landed in France and is mobilizing an army...
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