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Born in London , Nathaniel Rothschild was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) and Hannah Cohen (1783-1850). He moved to Paris, France in 1850 to work in the banking business owned by his uncle, James Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868). In 1842, Nathaniel de Rothschild married Charlotte De Rothschild (1825-1899), daughter of James Mayer Rothschild . They had the following children:
Nat Rothschild worked with his uncle James at the De Rothschild Frères bank in Paris, but in 1853 he acquired Château Brane Mouton, a vineyard in Pauillac in the Gironde département from a Paris banker named Thuret who had previously bought it from Baron Hector de Branne in 1830. Nat Rothschild paid 1,175,000 francs for Brane-Mouton's 65 acres (263,000 m&2) of vineyards and renamed the estate, Château Mouton Rothschild . It would become of the world's best known winemakers. In 1868, Nat's uncle James acquired the neighboring Château Lafite vineyard. A prestigious First Growth (premier cru) property more than three times the size of Chateau Mouton, it created a family rivalry. In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification Of 1855 Château Mouton was ranked second, something that upset its owner a great deal. In response, he composed the motto: ''Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis.'' ("First I cannot be, second I do not choose to be, Mouton I am."). Nat Rothschild went Blind during his final years. He died in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and his children and grandchildren showed little enthusiasm for the wine business. It would be 118 years later before Château Mouton, under the leadership of Nat's great-grandson Philippe De Rothschild (1902-88), would become the only French vineyard to ever achieve reclassification to first growth. GENEALOGY http://wikitree.org/index.php?title=Nathaniel_de_Rothschild SEE ALSO |
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