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Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers (24 May 1837 – 20 December 1922) was a French banker.

Life and family

Born in 1837 as the son of Meyer Joseph Cahen d'Anvers and Clara Bischoffsheim (1810–1876), he was a scion of two wealthy Jewish banking families. He married Louise de Morpurgo, who was from a wealthy

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ish family from

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Two of their daughters, Alice (1876–1965) and Elisabeth (1874–1944

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), were painted by

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in '' Pink and Blue'' in 1881. Alice married Major General Sir Charles Townshend and was the grandmother of Belgian-American journalist

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. A third daughter, Irène (1872–1963), was the subject of a Renoir painting entitled '' Little Irène'' in 1880. Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed payment of only 1500 francs. Irène married

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in 1891 and divorced in 1902. During the Nazi occupation of France, Irène survived by escaping to a villa in the south of France. Her daughter, Béatrice, was murdered in the

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References

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Louis Louis may refer to: People * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer Other uses * Louis (coin), a French coin * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also ...

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