He took over the management of Château Lafite Rothschild from his uncle in 1973[3] and turned it from a "traditional, perhaps not precise, instrument to an artistic, professional one", a move that enabled the vineyard to remain competitive during the 1980s when international wines became more competitive.[4] In 1984, he bought the vineyard Château Rieussec.[5]
He is the chairman of the UK Private Banking & Trust.[2] He is on the supervisory board of Paris Orléans, which manages €28.3 billion of assets.[6] From 1994 to 2004, he managed the archives of the bank Rothschild Frères before transferring it to The Rothschild Archive.[7]
Personal life
He is married to Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo di Forino, a painter.[8] He has two sons and one daughter.[9]
He has been the chairman of the Mémorial de la Shoah, a museum about The Holocaust in Paris, since 2001.[1] In 2010, with Serge Klarsfeld, he revealed the existence of a document that contained a law project regarding the fate of Jewish people in France, and annotated by the Maréchal Pétain.[11] In 2012, he called for the teaching of the Holocaust in French schools, to combat antisemitism and all forms of racism.[1]
