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[117] pp. First Printing Exemplaire No 90 imprime specialement pour le Baron et la Baronne Elie de Rothschild 10.25" x 12" Privately Printed: Monaco (1961). oblong 4to. The lavishly produced testament to Lopez-Willshaw's extraordinary home in Neuilly sur Seine. Thirty original photographs by Jean Vincent of the interior decor and gardens are tipped into the text by Philippe Jullian. Printed in two colours on heavyweight Auvergne papers, red silk endpapers. A near fine copy in cream linen boards, the clamshell box is in very good condition with only light edgewear. Uncommon. In-4, cream canvas binding, 129 pages, 27 original photographic illustrations in black. 300 copies printed on Auvergne paper in the shape of the Moulin Richard de Bas specially watermarked with the mark of Mr Arturo Lopez-Willshaw. 270 copies are printed in the names of their recipients and 32 non-commercial copies are numbered from I to XXX. This copy bears the No 90 printed specially for Baron and Baroness Elie de Rothschild. Cardboard box. Élie Robert de Rothschild (29 May 1917-6 August 2007) was the guardian of the French branch of the Rothschild family banking dynasty. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from 1946 to 1974. Lineage Élie de Rothschild was the younger son of Baron Robert de Rothschild and Nelly Beer. His father was a partner in de Rothschild Frères with his cousin, Baron Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild. His mother was the daughter of Edmond Beer, a great-great-niece of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, and elder sister of Marie-Louise Beer, who married Lionel Nathan de Rothschild from the English branch of the Rothschild family. Élie and his siblings (Diane, Alain and Cécile) were brought up at Château de Laversine, near Chantilly, and at the family mansion at 23 avenue de Marigny near the Elysée Palace in Paris. World War II service He and his brother served as officers in a cavalry regiment the Anciens 11èmes Cuirassiers when Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. Both were captured by the Nazis close to the Belgian border during World War II. Élie was taken to the prisoner of war camp Oflag X-B at Nienberg near Hamburg. After being discovered planning to escape, he was taken to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, then to Oflag X-C at Lübeck, one of the toughest POW camps. There, he was reunited with his brother. Despite being persons of Jewish descent, both were treated by the Wehrmacht as captured officers. He was released in early 1944. Elie later recounted that, despite the harsh condition of the prison, he had been treated well and respectfully throughout. While in Colditz, Élie had written to his childhood sweetheart Baroness Liliane Fould-Springer and asked her to marry him, which they did by proxy by 1942 Élie being allowed to take his marriage vows while imprisoned. Her mother thought her foolish to take on the Rothschild name with the Nazis in control of France. However, they were not troubled during the Nazi occupation. The Fould-Springers had extensive interests in Austria, and one branch of the family owned Château Beychevelle, a Bordeaux estate close to Château Lafite in Pauillac in the Médoc. Post-war life After the war, Élie, Alain and their wives shared the family mansion at avenue de Marigny, which had been used as the Luftwaffe headquarters during the war. Élie and his family moved to 11 rue Masseran in the 1950s, where he displayed his great collection of art, including works by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Dubuffet and Picasso. This collection was described in the book Great Private Collections, by Douglas Cooper; when Alvar Gonzales Palacios discovered a Dancer of Canova, he researched its history, and found out that, for a while, it had been in the Hotel Massaran, with the ridiculous attribution to Carpeaux. Élie and his brother assisted their cousin, Guy de Rothschild, to rebuild the Rothschild Frères investment ban. N° de ref. del artículo 32158

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