Baron Éric Alain Robert David de Rothschild (born 3 October 1940) is a French banker.

Early life

Éric de Rothschild was born on 3 October 1940 in

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'', January 29, 2012 His father was

Alain de Rothschild Baron James Gustave Jules Alain de Rothschild (7 January 1910 – 17 October 1982) was a French banker and philanthropist. Early life Alain de Rothschild was born on 7 January 1910 in Paris, France. His father was Baron Robert de Rothschild, who ...

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'', March 25, 2010 His uncle was

Élie de Rothschild Élie Robert de Rothschild (29 May 1917 – 6 August 2007) was the guardian of the French branch of the Rothschild family banking dynasty. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite ...

Career

He took over the management of

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from his uncle in 1973 and turned it from a "traditional, perhaps not precise, instrument to an artistic, professional one", a move that enabled the vineyard to remain competitive during the 1980s when international wines became more competitive. In 1984, he bought the vineyard

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. In 1982, he was managing the de Rothschild bank in Paris with his cousin

David René de Rothschild Baron David René James de Rothschild (; born December 15, 1942) is a French banker and a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family. Since 2018, he is supervisory board chairman of Rothschild & Co and chairman of Rothschild Continuat ...

when it was nationalized by

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's government. He is the chairman of the UK Private Banking & Trust. He is on the supervisory board of Paris Orléans, which manages €28.3 billion of assets. From 1994 to 2004, he managed the archives of the bank Rothschild Frères before transferring it to The Rothschild Archive.

Personal life

He is married to Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo di Forino, a painter.Max Abelson
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'', June 5, 2008 He has two sons and one daughter. He is the honorary president of the

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. He has been the chairman of the

Mémorial de la Shoah Mémorial de la Shoah is the Holocaust museum in Paris, France. The memorial is in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II. The memorial was opened, by Presid ...

, a museum about

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in Paris, since 2001. In 2010, with

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, he revealed the existence of a document that contained a law project regarding the fate of Jewish people in France, and annotated by the

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. In 2012, he called for the teaching of the Holocaust in French schools, to combat

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and all forms of

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Awards

* 1993: ''

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'''s Distinguished Service Award * 2006: Southern Wine & Spirits of America Lifetime Achievement Award

References

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