"French Banker" Guy de Rothschild Signed Time Magazine Cover COA

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Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild  (pronounced [baʁɔ̃ ɡi edwaːʁt ‿ alfɔ̃s pɔl də ʁɔt.ʃild] ; 21 May 1909 – 12 June 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family . He owned the bank Rothschild Frères  from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys . He was named to the International Best Dressed List  Hall of Fame in 1985. Baron Guy de Rothschild was born in Paris, the son of Baron Édouard de Rothschild  (1868–1949) and his wife, the former Germaine Alice Halphen (1884–1975). He has three siblings. Guy's elder brother, Édouard Alphonse Émile Lionel (1906–1911), died at the age of four of appendicitis;[2]  he also had two younger sisters, Jacqueline  and Bethsabée . Half of his great-grandparents were Rothschilds. He was a great-great grandson of the German patriarch of the Rothschild family Mayer Amschel Rothschild  (1743–1812), who founded the family's banking in the 18th century in Frankfurt, Germany. He grew up at his parents' townhouse on the corner of the rue de Rivoli  and the Place de la Concorde  in Paris (a property once occupied by Talleyrand  and now the United States Embassy ) and their country estate at Château de Ferrières , 25 miles east of Paris. Château de Ferrières is a massive house built to a design by Joseph Paxton  in the 1850s, based on Paxton's earlier design of Mentmore Towers  for Baron Mayer de Rothschild  of the English branch of the Rothschild family. He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet  and Lycée Louis-le-Grand  in Paris, and by private tutors. He undertook military service with the cavalry at Saumur , and played golf  for France. He won the Grand Prix de Sud-Ouest  in 1948. In 1940, as a result of the German occupation of France in World War II , Guy de Rothschild's parents and sister Bethsabée  fled France and made their way to safety in New York City . Guy de Rothschild had enlisted in the French Army  and was a company commander in the 3rd Light Mechanised Division during the Battle of France  in early 1940. After fighting the Nazis at Carvin , he was part of the French Army that was forced to retreat to Dunkirk . He was awarded the Croix de Guerre  for his actions on the beaches at Dunkirk, from where he was evacuated to England. He immediately returned to France, landing at Brest , and taking charge of the family's office at La Bourboule , near Clermont-Ferrand . Under the Vichy government , his father and uncles were stripped of their French nationality, removed from the register of the Légion d'honneur , and the family was forced to sell its possessions. Rothschild managed to persuade the buyers to grant options under which he would later be able to buy the family's interests back. He left France again, via Spain and Portugal, to join his parents in New York City . He joined the Free French Forces  and boarded the cargo ship, Pacific Grove , to travel back to Europe. His ship was torpedoed and sunk in March 1943, and he was rescued after spending 12 hours in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean . In England, he joined the staff of General Koenig at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force  near Portsmouth. Guy de Rothschild studied law at university then joined de Rothschild Frères  in 1931 when it was being run by his father and a cousin, Robert de Rothschild , who died in 1946. As part of his learning to manage the family's businesses, in 1933 he joined the executive board of their Northern Railway Company . At the end of World War II, Guy de Rothschild returned to the bank's offices at rue Laffitte  in Paris in 1944. On his father's death in 1949, Guy de Rothschild took formal control of the business. Years later, Rothschild was on the cover of the 20 December 1963 issue of TIME  magazine in a story that said he took "over the family's French bank during the disorder of war and defeat, changed its character from stewardship of the family fortune to expansive modern banking." Following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Guy de Rothschild served as a director of the Banque de France . On his father's death, he also inherited part of Château Lafite-Rothschild  but did not run it. Georges Pompidou , who would later become President  and Prime Minister of France , was recruited by Guy de Rothschild from a job as a teacher, and worked for him from 1953 to 1962, during which time he became the general manager of the Rothschild bank. The bank diversified, from investment management under De Rothschild Frères to the deposit-taking Banque de Rothschild, with branches throughout France. Guy was its president from 1968 to 1978. In 1968 Guy de Rothschild became a partner at N M Rothschild & Sons , London , while cousin Sir Evelyn de Rothschild  was appointed a director of Banque Rothschild , Paris.

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