Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer

He passed on the bank to his son Baron Henri Hottinguer at the age of 83.

He returned to Paris for a very short period before he took off on another voyage; the destination this time was America.

When he returned, he achieved vast[clarification needed] success in the financial world.

His first stop was Constantinople, where he linked Hottinger & Cie with all the great banking families in Europe.

[1] During his time, the Hottinger banking house played an important role in major development projects in France and elsewhere in Europe: creation of major manufacturing and services companies, the co-founding of banking and insurance companies and the first railways—Baron Rodolphe was Vice Chairman of Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, and his portrait, next to that of Sarah Bernhardt, still forms part of the fresco depicting numerous personalities of the time at the famous Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.