Marguerite de Rothschild

Marguerite de Rothschild, Duchesse de Gramont, by Philip Alexius de Laszlo (1902)

Marguerite de Rothschild, Duchesse de Gramont (born in Frankfurt 19 September 1855 - dead in Paris 25 July 1905) was the daughter of Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886) (Branch of Naples) and Louise von Rothschild (1820–1894) (Branch of London). Her father disapproved of her marriage with a Catholic Count, Count de Liederdeke and her conversion to Catholicism and withdrew her from his will. Soon after her marriage, Count de Liederdeke died at a hunting party. She remarried with Agénor, XIth duc de Gramont (then duc de Guiche) in 1878 who was the son of an ex-ambassador of Napoléon III. Baron Carl Meyer von Rothschild refused of course to attend the wedding, because he had preferred his daughter to marry her cousin Edmond de Rothschild, and not a non-Jew.

The will of her father was revoked and she received her inheritance at her father's death, in 1886, which was enormous. Duke and Duchess de Gramont lived in their hôtel particulier on the Champs Élysées where she would give parties for the cream of the aristocracy, and at their château de Vallières, near Paris.

They had three children:

• Antoine Agénor Armand (1879–1962), Duc de Guiche, then Xe Duc de Gramont, who was a close friend of Marcel Proust, and married Élaine Greffulhe, the daughter of the famous Élisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe
• Antonia Corisande Emma Louise (1880–1977) who married Marquis Hélie de Noailles
• Louis-René (1883–1963), Comte de Gramont, who married Antoinette de Rochechouart-Mortemart

See also

Château de Vallière, near Paris

• Rothschild family
• Duc de Gramont

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Date of birth	19 September 1855
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Date of death	25 July 1905
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