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...central France. He served on De Gaulle's civilian staff after World War II, aided the general in producing his Memoirs, and has long been a close personal friend. A tall, hefty intellectual with bristling eyebrows and a heavy-featured face, Pompidou joined the investment bank of Rothschild Frères in 1954, swiftly rose to general director. Stolid where Debré was emotional, inclined to make broad judgments where Debré worried over details. Pompidou has been described as having "the same view of France and the same view of De Gaulle's destiny as De Gaulle...
Coins to Deals. The beginnings are sufficiently classic: Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a secondhand-shopkeeper, locked at night inside the Frankfurt ghetto. Appropriately enough, Mayer began to specialize in coins, and rose by way of highborn coin collectors. From selling coins, the family went on to lending money; the sons left home, and went from trading in commodities to dealing in finance. In those days, when news traveled no faster than the stagecoach or sailing ship, the five brothers realized that a speedy communications system could mean money, organized their own version of a private pony express and courier service...
...Author Morton comes off best with the English branch, it is perhaps because they come off best themselves. A Rothschild was the first Jew in the Commons, a Rothschild was the first Jew in the Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money...
...modern times, it was to an Austrian castle of theirs that Edward VIII went after abdicating; and it was upon the Rothschild fortune that the incoming Nazis trained a covetous eye. With steel-helmeted SS men, pistols drawn, two yards from his table. Baron Louis ate lunch amid footmen and sauces, used the fingerbowl after fruit, enjoyed his cigarette, took his heart medicine, approved the next day's menu, and went into custody. When they invaded France the Nazis looted 4,000 "major art items'' from various Rothschild mansions. When reassembled after World War II, the collection...
Sons &. Sense. Sons have not just been the keystone of the House of Rothschild but the actual edifice: only sons can be partners. The Italian and German banking houses ceased in the 19th century not from lack of shrewdness but from lack of sons. But in France, there has been no lack of sons; the current heir is Guy, who heads what is still the largest private bank in France...