Noémie de Rothschild

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

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)

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]