Adolph de Rothschild person

“Château Pregny, built by Stokes for Adolph in 1858, was a modest affair in comparison.…”

“Château Pregny, built by Stokes for Adolph in 1858, was a modest affair in comparison.…”

“Château Pregny, built by Stokes for Adolph in 1858, was a modest affair in comparison.…”

“Adolph opted to flee with the Bourbon King Francis II to Gaeta…”

“Adolph opted to flee with the Bourbon King Francis II to Gaeta, north of Naples…”

“Adolph’s embarrassment may partly explain his sister Charlotte’s animus against Garibaldi…”

“It is easy to imagine the Rothschild Schadenfreude in 1868, when Adolph bought the hotel at 47 rue de Monceau from Isaac Pereire’s son Eugène for just £42,000—£17,200 less than the Pereires had paid for it…”

“Of the sons of Carl, Adolph withdrew from the business in 1863 and Mayer Carl’s health began to decline in the later 1870s, leaving the pious and financially unambitious Wilhelm Carl to preside over the last years of the Frankfurt house aft…”

“The first obvious sign of fragmentation was Adolph’s apparently unilateral decision to withdraw from the partnership and close down the Naples house in 1863 on the ground that the Naples market had been “deprived of its importance.”…”

“The first obvious sign of fragmentation was Adolph’s apparently unilateral decision to withdraw from the partnership and close down the Naples house in 1863 on the ground that the Naples market had been “deprived of its importance.”…”

“On September 22, 1863, he relinquished his partnership, withdrawing the sum of £1,593,777 as his share—more or less equivalent to the capital of the Naples house (£1,328,025) which was now wound up.…”

“In particular, James was furious to hear that his nephew intended doing business in competition with the Paris house in the Turin market.…”

“However, his efforts to carry on business in Italy in a semi-detached role were evidently stymied by James, who now denounced him as “riff-raff” and a “great lump”; he wanted to tell him “to go to the devil,” he told his sons, “without doin…”

“In particular, James was furious to hear that his nephew intended doing business in competition with the Paris house in the Turin market.…”

“However, his efforts to carry on business in Italy in a semi-detached role were evidently stymied by James, who now denounced him as “riff-raff” and a “great lump”; he wanted to tell him “to go to the devil,” he told his sons, “without doin…”

“In the end, Adolph avoided an outright breach by retiring from business altogether, selling the family residence in Naples and frittering away the remainder of his life on his collection of objets d‘art at Pregny.…”

“And in France Adolph established an ophthalmological hospital in Paris after a surgeon in Geneva successfully removed a piece of metal which had lodged in his eye...…”

“When Adolph visited the Holy City in January 1848…”