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Baron Guy de Rothschild
Baron Guy de Rothschild was the patriarch of the French branch of the famed Rothschild banking family and the founder of the United Jewish Fund, which he presided over for over three decades.
It was under his leadership that the Rothschild’s Paris bank was rebuilt after it had been seized during World War II and again after a government takeover in the 1980s.
Baron Guy de Rothschild was born in Paris in 1909, the son of Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868–1949), the head of the bank before Baron Guy, and the great-grandson of James, who founded the French branch of the Rothschild dynasty in 1812.
Rothschild was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and by private tutors.
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He undertook military service with the cavalry at Saumur, and played golf for France. He won the Grand Prix de Sud-Ouest in 1948.
After attending law school, Baron Guy began working at the bank in 1931, at the beginning of a decade that would be politically