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Article: Guy de Rothschild; French Banking Executive
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- The Washington Post
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- June 14, 2007
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Guy de Rothschild, 98, the dynamic patriarch of one of the
world's dominant banking families and whose business savvy helped
revive and expand the multibillion-dollar enterprise after World War
II, died June 12 in Paris. No cause of death was disclosed.
For generations, the Rothschilds had been economic advisers to
European royalty, heads of state and even popes. Guy de Rothschild's
ancestors settled in Paris and started a French banking branch in
1817 that financed wars and railroads as well as occasional
explorations in mining and archeology.
They became one of the richest and most powerful families in the
world. Yet for all their wealth, they largely operated away from
public scrutiny. ...