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Élie de Rothschild
French banker and art collector
1917 – 2007aged 90
A partner in the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty who, as guardian of the family's French holdings after the Second World War, ran the storied Château Lafite-Rothschild vineyard from 1946 to 1974, restoring its standing as one of Bordeaux's premier estates. He had been captured as a French army officer in 1940 and spent much of the war as a prisoner, escaping multiple times before returning to rebuild the family's business.