European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monies Baron Manhattan Baron Guy de Rothschild in his new York up photo Rothschild right As president of the Centra jewish consistory of France in Paris by Melissa Sones United press International Baron Guy de Rothschild bears a legendary family for nearly 200 Rothschild has symbolized Glamor and grand the the senior member of the French rothschilds and head of the French Rothschild Bank for 35 is descended from an 18th Century jewish merchant banker in whose five sons spread their enor Mous ambitions across in so the sons amassed one of the worlds largest their International banking Empire developed powerful branches in England and France and interests in govern mining and railroads of the vineyards of chateau the extent of the family Fortune is a Well guarded although estimates Range from million to in new Baron Guy de Rothschild does not live on Park he lives a Block away off Lexington Avenue in a setting grand in style but relatively unassuming in although he grew up with hundreds of serv ants it was the exclusive Job of one to Row among the swans at the family country Cha teau the door is answered by rothschilds Lone a Spanish woman who lives Shes a very Good she Cooks very she looks after the tonight i have two French friends for dinner and Shes done he Rothschild belongs to a club that provides a private plane but i take it very i treat it As a at Baron Guy de Rothschild Calls himself but his retirement has been More turbulent than rest the reason in the socialist government of French president Francois Mitterrand nationalized the family making the French rothschilds exiles in their own the French government paid million a with his 19 77 in after jockey club race in France his passion for racing started very cording to than the Cost of building a new in the French paper be Rothschild wrote of his family a jew under Petain in world War the nazi run Vichy government stripped rothschilds father of his citizenship and a pariah under Mitterrand for me its to rebuild on ruins twice in a lifetime is too forced into retirement i have decided to in Rothschild moved to new York in an attempt to restore the Rothschild name in the world of invest page14 the stars and stripes ment banking by associating not Man aging Rothschild the relatively Small in vestment Bank in new whether he has succeeded is a matter of Sharp debate on Wall roths Childs son David and Nephew Eric have gotten clearance from the French government to establish a new Bank in the Baron left behind in Paris his wife of 28 and began to write his it was a major trauma in my says it was really a Heartbreak to be thrown out of history and the physical environment where Ive been ail my the last cocktail at the Bank after the nationalization was very moving he i was very for a number of months i reasoned with myself and it became Clear to me that bitterness Only hurts the person who feels not the one against whom it is he currently spends six months of the year in new York and the rest with his wife at their various he is gradually tipping the bal Ance in favor of leading to the time when he bows out of an Active new York role most Likely next Baron Guy de Rothschild is enormously polite and at the slightest impropriety answering two questions at once apologizes at the least he adjusts his suit he is obviously a Man of Money was the the raw Means of my business and not something to throw he Rothschild stands for taste and cultivated show Ness without some people connect a guilt with notes i dont have guilt is justified if one is ungenerous and and can reasonably do or if one Only uses Money for Rothschild had a fairytale childhood punctuated by visits to the family country chateau called a victorian Castle built on an elizabethan plan on acres with 30 guest rooms and 30 servants when up photo guests the Rothschild Art for which the family is adorned the main these ranged from Ingres and Van Dycks to his new York apartment is Hung with one Rembrandt and several vouchers paintings of the Louis Xiv Rothschild in the sense of Rothschild collections that Are extremely valuable and in no Way can i be called a collector of i never collected the Interior of like rothschilds new York apartment and most Rothschild was Rothschild i mean not the new York done by Geoffrey is a stunning harmonious disorder of Plush tapes family precious elegant rare books and sitting in his Rothschild is surrounded by the a portrait of his Grandfather an exquisite antique photos of his flow and objects Dart discovered by she sees something that she likes and she wont resist buying says it could be a paint a Little a it could be an in not talking millions of in talking about things that Appeal to she bought the two statues next he referring to two Ivory busts in the living Marie Helene purchased them in my wife is very artistic in All senses of the he she Doest read literature but she was a fabulous critic of my for meeting Marie Helene was one of his lifes greatest especially after a painful divorce from his first Alix Schey de descended from a hungarian jewish like numerous Rothschild was related to a Branch of the Rothschild their marriage in 1937 lasted a Little Over 10 she died in 1981 after a Long Rothschild describes his second marriage As enor Mously he and Marie Helene have a Rothschild has a and step from his first marriage and a from his Marie Helene is lushly blonde and she is the disorganized counterpoint to rothschilds reserved although they live this is not a loosening of the says because Marie Helene suffers from an arthritic coming Here would have been a much harder life for she comes Here several times a year and i come and go quite a each Rothschild goes to Rothschild where he is co chairman with an English he tries to walk the 18 blocks because its a passionate he tackles his horseracing Reading which is a and answers you get infinitely More mail requests Here than in he youre inundated with things you have to answer i lunch at the usually most afternoons i spend in the apartment Reading or rothschilds taste in books ranges from trash to liter with a penchant for British mystery writers Dick Francis and John be Carre and French upstairs in a room filled with 18thcentury Bronze Ani an antique sofa and table cluttered with family is rothschilds Reading on a table next to it is a biography of Charles de in whose Headquarters Rothschild worked during the what he didst realize until this says roths is even As a Young de Gaulle was recognized even by people who didst like him As a when he was a it was certain hed be chief of the late Georges whom Rothschild knew Well Long before he became prime minister or pre he feels i saw a Man with great common and he but not but its the family photographs Rothschild prefers to this is myself with my Sisters Jacqueline and he lifting one showing the three As children surrounded by wooden you know Jacqueline was married to Gregor Piti he one of the worlds great died in others show rothschilds parents at their in Grandfather and in a More recent Nancy Annette Reed and the late fran August Cois de la Rothschild grew up in a Paris mansion that now houses the american but City or coun he was even on the Beach at my Nanny made no distinction Between fun and exercise nervously or Dering dig he writes in his whims of his Mother insisted a chauffeur and Footman accompany him to As a he i lacked the Confidence in my ability to Deal with the Little problems of daily life and ended up believing that i was neither Clev nor Manly enough to he gives credit for restoring his Sel Confidence to Tutor Roger who stepped in when rothschilds school grades faltered and introduced Rothschild to Nathan later became Secretary general of the French ministry of at a budding member of International Rothschild did All the right things september at Biarritz Deauville in August drinks at bouquets during fall afternoons in in the 1970s International society took its cues from the rothschilds More from Marie Helene once she introduced her elaborate costume balls at to Audrey Hepburn came with her head in a the balls were recalls they were pieces of Art invented by my wife and her they were works of Art in a period of great expansion in France totally incompatible with and it was wonderful while it beyond Rothschild faced his jewish under the surface of the social privileges from which id benefited since the Day i was he i could be nothing More than just another for Many years he actively ran the the leading jewish Community organization in but Rothschild says he is not a religious Marie like the current wives of several other roths is not my no religiousness Doest go to the he its not denying i have a feeling of the smallness of Man in the immensity of the world and of my relationship with the the stars and stripes Page 15