THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 7

THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS.

ig The head of the French .Rothschilds, Baroi es Alphonse, has just given his annual ball, al I Ferrieres, to his tenants and farm servants it He is the most financial of all tlie Roths a childs; he comes to his office in the Rui ly Lafitte, as the earliest of his clerks, eats hi: sd dejeuner in his office, and quits work like tlx n- rest, at six o'clock. After dinner his chie I pleasure is to have a walk through the street th and look at the shops. It is the Baroues 2n who visits for him and keeps their placj .) warm in the fashionable world, where she i vy a distinguished figure, yet she never appear id outlandish in toilet, and her diamonds ar n- soberly worn. They have two daughters am id one son. The eldest is married, bavind. passed her examination as a scliool-mistresa The second girl is like her mother, a " Bib lical, united to an English beauty." Tin Baron's two brothers assist liim in the bank He has several cousins; one is a barrister of but not briefless, for he pleaded one case am mi lost it. Another devotes himself to collect in ing postage-stamps and publishing books nd remarkable at least for their gorgeous bindirg ist He has oue cousin married to the Duke c he Gramont, and who out of love embraced th ;n- Catholic religion. The Baroness Soloino as has never quitted her weeds since she was s til early left a widow. She has an only dauglitc ■al who is famous as a coacliwoineu, and wh ■ge can drive as expertly as the Queen of til ler Belgians, while having horses nothing inferic nd in blood. The Baroness Charlotte, sister c y, the head of the house, married her uncle. Ft ur fifteen years she nursed him, a paralytii en Since his death she devotes her time to ar en and helping with her purse the poor ari a tocracy, for in politics the Rothschilds ai Orleanists —the tact of Baron Alphonse mother, during the reign of Louis Phillippi opened up the salons of St. Germain to hi :is family. Once only, during the reign i he Napolean 111., did she encounter th; ter monarch—when he invited himself, it'migl be said, to FemOres.