Noémie de Rothschild

Baroness Noémie de Rothschild (1888-1968) was a French philanthropist and property developer.

Noémie de Rothschild
Born
Noémie Halphen

29 June 1888
Paris, France
Died15 March 1968 (1968-03-16) (aged 79)
Paris, France
OccupationPhilanthropist, developer
Spouse(s)Maurice de Rothschild
Children1 son
Parent(s)Jules Halphen
Marie Rodrigues-Péreire
RelativesEugène Halphen (paternal grandfather)
Eugène Péreire (maternal grandfather)
Edmond James de Rothschild (father-in-law)

Early life

Noémie de Rothschild was born as Noémie Halphen on 29 June 1888 in Paris, France.[1] She was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.

Career

Rothschild turned her hôtel particulier in Paris into a hospital during World War I.[1] In 1916, she decided to develop a ski resort in France to avoid having to holiday alongside the Germans in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1][2] By 1919, she founded Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne.[1]

Domaine du Mont d'Arbois.

Rothschild developed the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, a luxury hotel in Mont d'Arbois near Megève in Haute-Savoie.[3] It was completed in 1921.[1]

Personal life and death

She married Maurice de Rothschild, a banker and politician. They had a son, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild. She died on 15 March 1968 in Paris.[1]

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References

  1. "Noémie de Rothschild". Stations de sports d'hiver. La Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  2. Coppier, Julien (2014). "Le tourisme en Savoie, construction d'une économie dans le temps long". In Bonin, Hubert; Bouvier, Yves; Varaschin, Denis (eds.). Histoire économique et sociale de la Savoie de 1860 à nos jours. Genève: Librarie Droz. pp. 457–482. ISBN 9782600018289. OCLC 903545560 via Cairn.info.
  3. Tixier, Maud (2010). "Comparaison de l'Usage d'Internet par les stations de ski internationales haut de gamme pour promouvoir leur positionnement et se différencier". Humanisme et Entreprise (in French). 5 (300): 17–36. doi:10.3917/hume.300.0017.
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