Noémie de Rothschild

Noémie de Rothschild
Born	Noémie Halphen 29 June 1888 Paris, France
Died	15 March 1968 (1968-03-16) (aged 79) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Philanthropist, developer
Spouse	Maurice de Rothschild ​ ​ (m. 1909; died 1957)​
Children	Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild
Parent(s)	Jules Halphen Marie Rodrigues-Péreire
Relatives	Eugène Halphen (paternal grandfather) Eugène Péreire (maternal grandfather) Edmond James de Rothschild (father-in-law)

Noémie de Rothschild (née Halphen; June 29, 1888 – March 15, 1968) was a French philanthropist and property developer.

Early life

Noémie de Rothschild was born as Noémie Halphen on 29 June 1888 in Paris, France to Jules Halphen and Marie Hermine Rodrigues-Péreire.[1] She was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.

Career

Rothschild turned her hôtel particulier in Paris into a hospital during World War I.[1] In 1916, she decided to develop a ski resort in France to avoid having to holiday alongside the Germans in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1][2] By 1919, she founded Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne.[1]

Domaine du Mont d'Arbois.

Rothschild developed the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, a luxury hotel in Mont d'Arbois near Megève in Haute-Savoie.[3] It was completed in 1921.[1]

Personal life and death

She married Maurice de Rothschild, a banker and politician. They had a son, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild. She died on 15 March 1968 in Paris.[1]

References

1. "Noémie de Rothschild". Stations de sports d'hiver. La Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
2. Coppier, Julien (2014). "Le tourisme en Savoie, construction d'une économie dans le temps long". In Bonin, Hubert; Bouvier, Yves; Varaschin, Denis (eds.). Histoire économique et sociale de la Savoie de 1860 à nos jours. Genève: Librarie Droz. pp. 457–482. ISBN 9782600018289. OCLC 903545560 – via Cairn.info.
3. Tixier, Maud (2010). "Comparaison de l'Usage d'Internet par les stations de ski internationales haut de gamme pour promouvoir leur positionnement et se différencier". Humanisme et Entreprise (in French). 5 (300): 17–36. doi:10.3917/hume.300.0017.