Pauline, Baroness de Rothschild (née Potter; December 31, 1908 – March 8, 1976) was an American fashion designer, writer and, with her second husband, a translator of both

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and the plays of

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.Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, ''Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984) She was named, with Diana Vreeland, who was added to this list in 1964, to the

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Hall of Fame in 1969, alongside

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, and

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Early life

She was born Pauline Potter at 10 rue Octave Feuillet in the Paris neighborhood of

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, to wealthy expatriate American parents of Protestant background.Frank J. Prial, "Baroness Pauline de Rothschild Dies", ''The New York Times'', 9 March 1976 Her mother was

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, a great-grand-niece of

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and a distant cousin of Britain's Lords Falkland and Cary."Francis H. Potter Weds in England; Nephew of Bishop Potter Marries Miss Gwendolyn icCary at Westminster", ''The New York Times'', 22 October 1907 Her father was Francis Hunter Potter, a playboy who was a grandson of

Alonzo Potter Alonzo Potter (July 6, 1800 – July 4, 1865) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Potter "identified himself with all the best interests of society." ...

, an Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, and a nephew and great-nephew of successive

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s of

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and

Henry Codman Potter Henry Codman Potter (May 25, 1834 – July 21, 1908) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Potter was "more praised and appreciated, perhaps, than any public man ...

. Potter was a member of several families that were prominent in the American South since the 17th century. She was a great-great-granddaughter of

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and a direct descendant of

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. His wife Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key was both a Lloyd, daughter of Edward Lloyd IV of

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and a Tayloe of Mount Airy on her mother, Elizabeth's side, the daughter of

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and sister to

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, arguably the wealthiest American, if not Southern Planter. Her grand-aunts Jennie and

Hetty Cary Hetty Carr Cary (May 15, 1836 – September 27, 1892) was the wife of Confederate General John Pegram and, later, of pioneer physiologist H. Newell Martin. She is best remembered for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy (al ...

(wife of the Confederate general

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) were well-known figures during the Civil War, known as the "Cary Invincibles" and considered heroines for sewing battle flags. It was

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who put the words of

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's poem "Maryland, My Maryland" to the German folk song "Lauriger Horatius", thereby creating what would become the state song of

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. Her mother's cousin and sometime guardian

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was one of the United States' best-known women in the late 19th century, a prominent novelist and social reformer. Another cousin,

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, served as

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of the

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and was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency.Jerry Rosco, ''Glenway Wescott, Personally'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), page 55 Due to her parents' frequent separations and subsequent divorce and their later marital and romantic entanglements and custody disputes, she was brought up in varying degrees of poverty and luxury in New York City, Paris,

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, and

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. She was educated at a private finishing school in

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, a town north of Paris, as well as schools and tutors elsewhere in France and Maryland, but her formal education was effectively over by the age of 16. By her father's second marriage to

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(formerly Mrs.

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), a Philadelphia sugar and utilities heiress, she had two stepsisters, Clara and Dorothy.

First marriage

In 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland, she married Charles Carroll Fulton Leser (1900–1949), a descendant of

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, an art restorer, who was the younger son of a prominent judge and a grandson of

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one of the city's leading newspaper publishers. He also was an alcoholic and a homosexual.Mitchell Owens, "Remembrance of Beauty", ''Nest'' Magazine, Winter 1998/1999 After moving to

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, Spain soon after their marriage, they separated in 1934, divorced in 1939, and had no children.

Romances

After she and Leser separated, she was romantically involved with a number of prominent men, including

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(a Prime Minister of Belgium), American diplomat Elim O'Shaughnessy (1907-1966), French horticultural heir (1907-1987), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov of Russia (one of the assassins of

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), and producer-director

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. For a period of years she also was the lover of

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, an heiress to a New York drug-store and real-estate fortune.

Career

In the early 1930s, she worked as a personal shopper in New York City, acting as a fashion advisor to wealthy socialites too busy to shop and too unsure of their personal style. Later, after moving to Europe with her first husband, she operated dress shops on Majorca. She also worked for the couturier

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in London and Paris and often was seen in society columns dressed in the firm's latest creations. In the early 1940s, she and a friend, Louise Macy, a former editor of ''

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'', opened Macy-Potter, a short-lived fashion house, in New York City. The firm was bankrolled by a monetary settlement from Macy's former lover, millionaire

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, a.k.a. Jock Whitney, who had left her to marry

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, a former daughter-in-law of President

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. Though Macy-Potter's first (and only) collection was a critical and financial disaster, Potter went on to design a collection for Marshall Field and later to direct the custom-fashion division of

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, the New York fashion company, succeeding

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, who left in 1943 to become chief fashion designer for

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. She remained at Hattie Carnegie for nearly a decade and was known professionally as Mrs. Fairfax Potter. Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, ''Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984) Among her clients were the

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, automotive heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy, actress

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, actress

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, and prominent others. She also designed the women's costumes for John Huston's Broadway 1946 production of ''

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'' by

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, starring

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and Annabella. The gown she designed for Ford is in the collection of the

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. Potter also worked briefly as an uncredited fashion model. One assignment for ''Harper's Bazaar'' had her posing in the latest Grecian-style gowns for the photographer

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Second marriage

On 8 April 1954, she became the second wife of Baron

Philippe de Rothschild Philippe, Baron de Rothschild (13 April 1902 – 20 January 1988) was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix motor racing driver, a screenwriter and playwright, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and one ...

, a polymath and poet who was the owner of the fabled French winery

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. The baron's previous wife, Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, died in 1945 in

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. By this marriage, she had one stepchild,

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(1933–2014).

Literary pursuits

de Rothschild admired the works of the Japanese novelist

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and the stories of Danish writer

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, and she hoped to make her mark as a writer. Her articles about fashion, travel, and other subjects were published in ''

'' and ''

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'' (the latter's editor in chief,

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, was a distant cousin). In 1966, Harcourt Brace published her only book, ''

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'', a brief, atmospheric memoir of a trip she and her husband took to the Soviet Union in the dead of winter.

Death

de Rothschild died on 8 March 1976, of a heart attack in the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, in

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."Baroness de Rothschild Dies", ''The New York Times'', 9 March 1976 She previously had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone open-heart surgery for a deteriorated valve in 1975. Rothschild's health problems were exacerbated by

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, a genetic abnormality.

Burial

She is buried on the grounds of Château Mouton Rothschild in

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, France, beneath a translucent tomb made of

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glass and marble. The monument also contains the remains of her second husband and his parents, Mathilde and Henri de Rothschild.

Ancestors

Notes

References

*Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, ''Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984). *Mitchell Owens, ''Pauline On My Mind'', ''The New York Times'', 5 November 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/magazine/pauline-on-my-mind.html *Mitchell Owens, ''Remembrance of Beauty'', ''Nest'' Magazine, Winter 1998/1999. *''Architectural Digest'', May/June 1997, pages 118-123. *Joseph Holtzman, Derry Moore, and Carl Skoggard, ''Rooms'' (Rizzoli, 2006). * Edited with essay by Barbara Plumb, Photographs by Horst P, Horst, ''Horst: Interiors'', Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1993. *Frank J. Prial, ''Baroness Pauline de Rothschild Dies'', ''The New York Times'', 9 March 1976. *Frank J. Prial, ''Philippe de Rothschild, 85, Dies; Maker of Château Mouton Wine'', ''The New York Times'', 21 January 1988. *Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins, ''The Power of Style: The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well'' (Crown, 1994). *Hugo Vickers, ''The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970–1980'', (Knopf, New York, 2003). {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothschild, Pauline 1908 births 1976 deaths Cary family of Virginia French socialites French baronesses Mistresses of Russian royalty

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