Baron de Rothschild Dies at 85
Associated Press
PARIS —
Baron Philippe de Rothschild, winegrower, writer, sportsman, theater director and film producer, died today at his Paris home, family members said. He was 85.
Despite his wealth and many awards, Rothschild remained a man of the land, an enthusiasm born when his father made him manager of the family’s Bordeaux vineyards, Mouton-Rothschild, in 1922. His first wife, Countess Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, was deported by the Nazis in 1944 and died in the Ravensbruck concentration camp the next year.
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