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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'' La Croix'', January 29, 2012 the son of Mary Chauvin du Treuil and

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 mother had fled to the United States while pregnant during

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while his father remained behind and ended up as a German prisoner of war. 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 Château Rieussec. In 1982, he was managing the de Rothschild bank in Paris with his cousin

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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

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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

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, 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothschild, Eric de 1940 births Living people French bankers French corporate directors French philanthropists 20th-century French Jews

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