Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach (17 April 1840 – 19 November 1892), known as Jacques de Reinach was a French banker of Jewish German origin, involved in many major financial deals before being brought down by the

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. He was the son of Clementine Oppenheim (1822–1899) and her husband Adolphe de Reinach (1814–1879), Belgian consul in Frankfurt, ennobled in Italy in 1866 and then confirmed as a noble by

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Life

He settled in Paris at the end of the 1850s and in 1863 founded the bank Kohn-Reinach with his brother in law, international financier . On 6 May 1863, he married his first cousin Fanny Emden. Their children were Henriette-Clémentine (who married

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), Lucien and Juliette-Maximilienne. He served in the National Guard during the

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and was naturalised as a French citizen in 1871. His affairs prospered with the construction of the chemins de fer de Provence and investments in

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. His

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became the rendez-vous for political, financial and artistic Paris. He also bought the château de

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, a village in

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, of which he became mayor in 1884.

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Fictional depiction

In the 1898 novel ''Paris'',

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based baron Duvillard on Jacques de Reinach. More recently, Reinach's suicide is a plot point in

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's novel ''

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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinach, Jacob Adolphe 1840 births 1892 deaths French people of German-Jewish descent French bankers Jewish bankers Businesspeople from Frankfurt 19th-century French businesspeople German emigrants to France 19th-century Italian nobility