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Rothschild Alainde Biography

French banker and philanthropist, the son of Baron Robert de Rothschild and Gabrielle Nelly Beer. He started his career at Rothschild Freres, later known as Banque Rothschild, a family investment bank, in 1946. He owned 25%. In the aftermath of the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, he suggested French politicians did not care about what had happened, and questioned "the inexplicable impotence" of the French police. Through the CRIF, he negotiated with President Giscard dEstaing for increased police forces to keep synagogues safe. He spoke out against the Goldenberg restaurant attack, also in Paris, shortly before his death. He died of a heart attack on 17 October 1982 in New York City. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less