Banque Rothschild

Rothschild Frères, whose partners were himself and his brothers Amschel of Frankfurt, Carl of Naples, Nathan of London and Salomon of Vienna.

In recognition of his services to the nation, King Louis-Philippe elevated James to a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.

Following the Franco-Prussian War, in 1871–1872 the bank put together a syndicate that raised the five billion francs the country was obliged to pay Prussia under the terms of Armistice of Versailles.

In 1898, the Rothschilds established the Mazut Transportation Society that developed a fleet of oil tankers operating in the Caspian Sea.

In 1887, the French and English Rothschild banking houses lent money to, and invested in, the De Beers diamond mines in South Africa, becoming its largest shareholders.

[3] In 1953, future President of France, Georges Pompidou, joined de Rothschild Frères and from 1956 to 1962 served as its general manager.

In 1962, the bank created Imétal (later renamed Imerys), an umbrella company for their extensive mining ventures.

Headed by Guy de Rothschild, Imétal looked outward, investing in Great Britain and the United States, a move that put him on the December 20, 1963 cover of Time magazine.

In 1818, James Rothschild purchased the former hôtel particulier of 18th-century financier Jean Joseph de Laborde, on rue d'Artois in Paris (No.

[8] To its south lied the Hôtel de la reine Hortense [fr], and to its north the mansion of Anne Jean Marie René Savary,[9] both of which would later be absorbed into the Rothschild compound.

[3] That building has been more recently used as headquarters by Malakoff Humanis [fr], a health care services and pensions group.