Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1881 — The Rothschild Family. [ARTICLE]

The Rothschild Family.

The Paris branch of this famous family is quite large. The dowager Baroness Rothschild, who fives in the family mansion in the Rue Lafitte, had five children. Baron Alphonse, who is at this time the head of the family; Baron Solomon, who died a long time ago; Baron Gustave, Baron Edmond, and the Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild. The venerable dowager is a veritable fountain of charity. She gives away hundreds of thousands of francs every year. In summer she lives in a splendid county house at Boulogne, where apartments for each one of her sons and daughters are kept constantly in order. Baron and Baroness Alphonse Rothschild live in the old mansion in the Rue Saint Florentin, where Talleyrand once They are gay and extremely fond of society, and are seen everywhere in the monde; the Baroness is one of the most accomplished equestriennes who frequent the Bois de Boulogne. Her husband is an enthusiastic patron of the turf. He has stables at Meautrif and at Chantilly, and lavishes millions on them. Solomon Rothschild was a delicate-minded man, fond of conversation, books, pictures and society. His widow has a daughter who will, it is said, be the richest heiress in the Paris family. Baron Gustave is the only one who has married outside the family. One of the sons of the late Nathaniel Rothschild has just purchased the splendid mansion of Count Uolstoi, in the Avenue de Friedland; and another, named Arthur, spends his life in collecting books. It is said that no one else in France except the Duke d’Aounale possesses, such estimable treasures of rare editions and luxurious binding as this young Rothschild. One of the latest additions to the delegates in Paris of the phenomenally rich family is Baron Adolpne Rothschild, of Naples, who has closed out his business, and retired with the serenity of conscience promoted by the knowledge of the possession of a fortune of one hundred and eighty millions of francs. He may be seen now and then in the Bois, lolling negligently in the blue carriage which is one of the peculiarities of the house. He is a great collector, and will spend hundreds of thK>usanda.of francs upon any trifle which he happens to consider that he must have. There is but one Catholic in the family, and that is the young Duchess of Grammont, who, it will be remembered, was the daughter of Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort-on-the Main, one of the richest members of the group.— Paris Letter.

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