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Show NEW HEAD OF ROTHSCHILDS . tt ith the death ot Lord Rothschild' in England, the leadership ot the fa mous family ot financiers has shifted dC jf J from London to Paris, for the new A ' l head of the clan is Baron Edouard de t 4 t -iMi Rothschild of the latter city. Baron Edouard, whose title is IT v . i S'b-. Austrian, as are those ot all the si !" i French Rothschilds, is a man ot forty-V forty-V - P7 seven. He was admitted to the firm t vT in 1905 '"'hen his father, Baron Al- phonse, then head of the housa, died, , -X ' A being an only son. The same year t he married Germaine Halpen, the , a , t daughter of Emil Halpen, a million- v x " aire sugar merchant, and the grand- - daughter of the financier Fould, the 1 Rothschilds' great rival, who man-. aged the affairs- of Napoleon III. The A marriage, in uniting the two banking f. families of France, was acceptable to '"A F e bridegroom's family, although ?K 'ifehk. their policy had been to intermarry sss&M&$& among themselves. Baron Edouard was a nephew as well as a cousin of Lord Rothschild, just dead In London, Baron Edouard's mother being Lord Rothschild's sister, and his father a cousin. He was largely responsible for the huge loans made to Russia after the Japanese war, which he arranged with Count Witte, who consulted with him in Paris before sailing for the Portsmouth peace conference. |