Alphonse James de Rothschild person

“In 1857 James’s son Alphonse married Lionel’s daughter Leonora…”

“Charlotte suspected that James would positively welcome his nephew’s withdrawing from the business as it would allow him to increase the involvement of his elder sons Alphonse and Gustave…”

“Not surprisingly, then, Alphonse was (tentatively) pleased by the Liberal opposition’s apparent success in the May 1869 elections, even if the “Reds” did rather too well for Gustave’s taste...…”

“...and Nat was mildly alarmed by outbreaks of working class “hub bub.”…”

“According to Disraeli, who was in touch with Anthony that same month...…”

“As Alphonse complained, “In truth, it is pretty difficult to deal with the Austrian government, which is always so pressed for money that it approaches everyone simultaneously,” making it “almost impossible to bring any association to a hap…”

“In October 1869 Alphonse had a personal audience on the subject with the Rumanian Prince...…”

“In October 1869 Alphonse had a personal audience on the subject with the Rumanian Prince, who struck him as a “very nice boy, who appears to have intelligence and energy,”…”

““I know only too well my dear cousin’s habit of putting blame on all the other Houses,” he wrote acerbically in 1882.…”

“So bad had relations become by the time of James’s death in 1868 that Alphonse sought to avoid holding a family summit...…”

“...and when Nat died a year later Alphonse once again sought to avoid “striking a new balance sheet.”…”

“followed a decade later by James’s sons Alphonse (to Leonora in 1857)…”

“In March 1885, however, Alphonse heard rumours of “the great master of the world”—Bismarck—“wishing to meddle in the Chinese question.”…”

““[I]n the interest of world peace,” Alphonse told Bleichröder, “we deeply regret his departure, because we are convinced that to a large extent its maintenance in the last years was his doing.”…”

“and so did James: Alphonse (b. 1827)...…”

“Both James’s sons, Alphonse and Gustave, were nineteen before they began to write their own business letters.…”