Title : The Last of the Camondos - Pierre Assouline - book
Summary :
Coming from an illustrious and extremely wealthy family of Levantine bankers who settled in France at the end of the Second Empire, Count Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935) was a man of a milieu, that of the Parisian Jewish aristocracy, where the Rothschilds and the Pereires, the Foulds and the Cahens of Antwerp rubbed shoulders, a whole society escaped from the pages of Proust who found themselves in the hunts, the clubs and the boards of directors, competing in the magnificence of their castles, mansions and collections. The Camondo saga, from the Spanish Inquisition to the Nazi genocide by way of the Venice ghetto and the palaces of Constantinople, is not only a historical account retracing the epic of these great Sephardic lords. It is also a meditation on the solitude of a man abandoned by his wife, inconsolable by the death of his son, who devoted his life and fortune to reconstructing an 18th-century aristocratic residence in the heart of the Monceau plain, leaving France the most striking testimony to a vanished world and, despite everything, transmitting the name of his family to posterity. Did he have the intuition that he would be the last representative of his dynasty? That was his mystery and his secret. He left its mark on his house.
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EAN: 9782070745548
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