Betty von Rothschild

In 1824 at the age of 19 Betty married her uncle, the Paris-based banker James Mayer de Rothschild (1792-1868).

She secured the services of Frédéric Chopin as piano teacher to her family soon after his arrival in Paris,[3] and she commissioned a portrait from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1841, although it was not completed until 1848.

[1] Others who frequented her salon in Rue Laffitte in the 9th arrondissement of Paris included Heinrich Heine, Honoré de Balzac, Gioacchino Rossini and the Goncourt brothers.

[5] Unlike her husband, she maintained Jewish traditions in the household: James is reported as saying "Pour le judaïsme, voyez ma femme (When it comes to Judaism, refer to my wife).

[1][8] Her son Edmond, who was an ardent Zionist, founded in 1889 the settlement in Ottoman Palestine (now Israel) of Bat Shlomo (Hebrew: בָּת שְׁלֹמֹה, lit.