Les Rothschild en France au XIXe siecle
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, 2012. Paperback. Color-illustrated and gold wraps; white lettering on gold spine. French flaps. 191 pp. full of color and a few bw images. Good+ (mostly clean and tight but with a very few spot here and there - appears likely to be coffee, not foxing - and light general shelf wear). Item #162555
ISBN: 9782717725230
Text in French. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the BNF, November 2012 to February 2013. When in 1811, James de Rothschild arrived in France, he was 19 years old. His talent in business quickly designated him as one of the prominent players in the world of high bank. With him, bankers from all over Europe will make Paris a major financial center and participate in the industrial revolution. Through the fate of this family, it is the history of the first nineteenth century that is evoked, from the First Empire to the beginnings of the Republic ... Who are these entrepreneurs who engage in industry, raw materials, transport? Who are these aesthetes who animate, around them, a rich artistic life? Who are these "philanthropists" who support medical research, or are they working to promote urbanism inspired by theories of hygiene? It is the portrait of this high and enlightened finance that the exhibition sketches through the portrait of James and his four brothers ... At the heart of this exhibition is James de Rothschild, to whom the portraits of two other families, those of the brothers Pereire and the Camondo, answer in counterpoint. Rivales in their banking activities, their industrial companies - the railways (Compagnie du Nord from Paris to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the Paris-Orléans line, PLM Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée) philanthropy actions (Rothschild hospital), the development of tourism (creation of Arcachon), the birth of the great Bordeaux wines (Château Lafite, Château Palmer). But they are also similar in their worldly "habitus", their way of life and representation: private mansions and castles, collections of works of art and role of patrons to the French institutions (Louvre, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Renaissance, Decorative Arts, Nissim Camondo Museum, etc.). Characters who mark their time, but characters who also create, under the pen of Stendhal, Balzac or Zola, figures of fiction, which will mark the imagination of money in France. Presented in the magnificent Galerie Mansart of the Richelieu site, the exhibition displays a rich collection of paintings, works of art, books, illustrations, photographs, documents from the archives and collections of the Rothschild family, the BnF and several French institutions . - from the museum's web site.
OCLC: 840326787
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