Marguerite de Rothschild

Margaretha, known as Marguerite de Rothschild , duchess of Gramont, was born with Francfort-sur-le-Main the September 19th 1855 and died in Paris the July 25th 1905.

Biography

Girl of the baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820 - 1886), of the branch known as of Naples, and Louise von Rothschild (1820 - 1894), of the branch known as of London (V. Family Rothschild), Marguerite de Rothschild converts with Catholicism in order to marry, against the opinion of her family, a catholic, the count de Liedekerke, who is killed shortly after at the time of a shooting party.

“ One could not find to be more charming than Marguerite de Rothschild , writes the countess of Martel. Large, with admirable very soft eyes; a dazzling dye and a mouth which resembled a flower. ” ( the Merry childhood of IIIe Republic , Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1931, p. 178) the countess of Martel (the Gyp novelist) introduces it at Gramont where it falls in love with the young duke from Guiche and refuses to marry the baron Edmond de Rothschild, which his/her father had envisaged to give him for husband. If the mother of Marguerite approves it, his/her father refuses to go to his marriage and goes until disinheriting it.

December 10th 1878, Marguerite de Rothschild marries with Paris, Agénor de Gramont (1851-1925), wire of Agénor de Gramont (1819-1880), duke of Gramont, former Foreign Minister of Napoleon III.

They had three children:

Antoine Agénor '' Armand '', duke of Guiche then duke of Gramont (1879 - 1962), which will marry Élaine Greffuhle;
Corisande (1880 - 1977, marchioness Hélie de Noailles);
Louis-Rene, count de Gramont (1883 - 1963).

With died on the baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild in October 1886, the mother of Marguerite and her six sisters decide to reinstate it in the succession: she inherits then 60 million gold franc. During several months, the family does not change anything with her way of life. In 1888, Gramont leave their apartment of the street François Ier for a private mansion with the Invalids, then for a vast hotel on the Fields-Élysées.

Marguerite de Gramont gives great festivals to it where presses the Saint-Germain Suburb and the Saint-Honore Suburb. She binds particularly with Mrs Straus and Mrs Meredith Howland. Large and beautiful woman brown, serious, without ostentation, it has a great direction of the duty. During the Business Dreyfus, she manages to keep her living room away of the controversy.

Residences

Melun (Seine-et-Marne).
Apartment 1 Street François Ier (Paris, VIIIe district).
Then in 1888: Private mansion Street of Constantine, with the angle of the Street Saint-Dominique (pertaining to the princess of Sagan and depend on the hotel of Monaco).
Then: Private mansion Street of Chaillot (today Street Quentin-Bauchart) to the angle of the Which occurred of the Fields-Élysées (destroyed today).

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