#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty

Only a few crumbling bricks are left today of the foul smelling alley in Frankfurt. where in the second half of the eighteenth century, a disenfranchised Jew named Meyer Rothschild founded a European banking dynasty. Rothschild was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy and ingenuity. He raised five famously gifted sons, veritable money making machines to carry on his work after him.

Their names overshadowed his own and became synonymous with colossal wealth and Extravagant living And hidden political power. A century after his death. You could still ask in all seriousness.

If a great war was still possible in Europe, If the house of Rothschild set their face against it. Rothschild's origins were certainly modest. There was little reason to foresee his destiny. The personal circumstances of his life were difficult throughout.

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