Baron Guy de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking empire, has died, his family announced Thursday. He was 98. Rothschild, who saw the family’s bank taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, died Tuesday in Paris, his family said in an announcement in Le Figaro daily. The cause of death was not given. (Haaretz)
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I just read that his son Eduard was born to his second wife who died some years ago who was a Roman Catholic. His first son David was the son of his first wife who also was a cousin. They were from an old prominent Hungarian Jewish family.