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by Niall Ferguson


  4 The Rive Droite cost 16.8 million francs to build compared with a projected cost of 11 million, though it was significantly cheaper than the Rive Gauche.

  5 Although it seems unlikely that this pamphlet was authorised, Anselm later stated that the “vulgar abuse” directed at James had “emanated principally from a despicable person, to whom our Paris House had quite rightly refused a loan.”

  6 This was essentially a development of his allegations that James had bribed politicians and the press to secure the Nord concession, and a more general attack on the financing of the railways.

  7 Naturally, their mother interpreted their survival as “providential.” According to one account, however, Evelina and her unborn son died as a result of another railway crash two years later.

  SIXTEEN 1848

  1 Figures for length of line constructed and investment show that it was not until 1851 that the trough was reached, four years after the financial crisis: there was, to use an apposite metaphor, a “runaway train” effect.

  2 When Nat saw Adolph after the revolution, he found him “quite an altered man, he has become the steadiest fellow ever seen, he neither smokes nor shags nor dances.”

  3 According to the republican leader Garnier-Pagès, the attack on Suresnes was instigated by a local poultry merchant, Louis Frazier. The crowd pillaged the pheasant pens and the stables, stole horses and “with hatchets, iron bars and clubs they laid waste furniture, mirrors, and pictures.” Those convicted were sentenced to between five and twenty years in prison.

  4 Both Schleswig and Holstein were formally under Danish suzerainty, the former guaranteed by Britain, Russia and France under a treaty of 1720. However, the Salic law of succession applied in the duchies but not in Denmark, so that the failure of the Danish male line appeared to call the future of the duchies into question. The German claim was primarily an ethnic one. Holstein was already part of the German Confederation; the southern part of Schleswig was linguistically German. The Danes forced the issue by incorporating Schleswig into Denmark on March 21. The Confederation Diet in Frankfurt, encouraged by the nationalist pre-parliament, responded by sending a Prussian army to Schleswig. To the dismay of the nationalists in Frankfurt, on August 26 the Prussians bowed to British and Russian pressure and accepted an armistice which established a joint Danish—Prussian administration in the duchies.

  5 The political anxieties of Albert’s uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, were such that he deposited 5 million francs with the Rothschilds as a contingency fund in the event of his losing his throne.

  6 James attempted to mollify Cavour by sending his agent Landauer to offer him “as many Rentes au prix courant as I wanted.” Cavour refused, “but it gave me some idea of the way business is done in most of the European Cabinets.”

  INDEX

  “A-albionic Research Weekly” (Daugherty)

  Abbot Scaglia Adoring the Virgin and Child, The (Van Dyck)

  Aberdeen, Lord

  Adrianople, Treaty of (1829)

  Aguado (banker)

  Ailesbury, Lady

  Aix-la-Chappelle, Congress of

  Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort of England

  Algeria

  Alkan, Salomon

  Allen, Don

  Allgemeine Zeitung

  Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums

  Alliance Assurance Company

  Nathan and

  Alliance Marine Assurance Company

  Almadén mercury mines

  Alsager, Thomas Massa

  Althorp, Lord

  Alvars, Parish

  American War of Independence

  Andrássy, Gyula, Count

  “Angel, The” (Heine)

  Angoulême, duc D’

  Anhalt-Coethen

  Anson, George

  anti-Semitism:

  anti-Rothschild criticism and

  1848 revolution and

  emancipation issue and

  Tommaso affair and

  Anti-Semitic League

  Anti-Slavery Society

  Apotheosis and Adoration of the Idol of our Time (Kretschmer)

  Apponyi, Count

  Arari, David

  Arbuthnot, Charles

  Arbuthnot, Mrs.

  Ardouin

  Argent’ (Zola)

  Argout, comte d’

  Arkwright, Richard

  Arliss, George

  Armida abbandonata (Cherubini)

  Arnim, Achim von

  Arnstein & Eskeles

  Asis, Francisco de

  Atta Troll (Heine)

  Audubon, John James

  Auerstadt, battle of

  Augsburger Zeitung

  August Belmont & Co.

  Austria

  crises of 1831 and

  1834 fiscal policy of

  1848 revolution in

  Hungary’s conflict with

  intervention in Italy by

  Jewish emancipation issue in

  Papal states and

  postwar reparations owed to

  railway investment in

  Rothschild banking relationship with

  Rothschild loans to

  Rothschilds and British debt of

  subsidy deal and

  Tolerance Edict of 1782 of

  Austrian Nationalbank

  Austrian Steamship Company

  Ayer

  Baden

  Bagehot, Walter

  B. A. Goldschmidt

  Baguenault (banker)

  Bakunin, Michael

  Balfour, Arthur

  Balla.

  Balzac, Honoré de

  James’s relationship with

  Bank Charter Act, British

  Bank Committee, British

  Bank of England

  crisis of 1825 and

  crisis of 1836and

  1848 revolution and

  Nathan’s relationship with

  Peel’s financial reforms and

  Rothschilds and

  Bank of San Fernando

  Bank of the United States (BUS)

  Banque de Belgique

  Banque de Bordeaux

  Banque de France

  1848 revolution and

  Banque foncière

  Banque Rothschild

  Barandon (merchant)

  Barber, Joseph

  Barbès (socialist)

  Barbier (Austrian official)

  Baring, Alexander

  Baring, Francis

  Baring, John

  Baring Brothers

  Bartholony

  Baruch, Bernard

  Baruch, Jacob

  Baruch, Juda Low, see Börne, Ludwig

  Bastide (foreign minister)

  Bates, Joshua

  “Baths of Lucca, The” (Heine)

  Bathurst, Earl

  Bauer, Bernhard

  Bauer, Bruno

  Bauer, Ignaz

  Bauer, Max

  Bavaria

  Beauharnais, Hortense de

  Beauties of Brighton (Cruikshank)

  Beck, Karl

  Bedford, Duke of

  Beechey, William

  Beethoven, Ludwig van

  Behrens (banker)

  Belgium

  crisis of 1831- and

  crisis of 1838- in

  Dutch invasion of

  Bellini, Vincenzo

  Belmont, August

  Bender, Johann Heinrich

  Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Prince von

  Bentinck, George

  Berchem, Nicolaes

  Berend (clerk)

  Berghoeffer, G. H.

  Berlin Convention (1808)

  Berlioz, Hector

  Bermudez, Cea

  Berry, duc de

  Berry, duchesse de

  Bethmann, Johann Philipp

  Bethmann, Simon Moritz von

  Rothschilds resented by

  Bethmann Brothers

  Bethnal Green Society for the Relief of the Sick Poor
r />   Beyfus, Mayer

  Beyfus, Seligmann

  Biddle, Nicholas

  Bills of Exchange Act (1882), British

  “Biographical Notes on the House of Rothschild” (Gentz)

  Birds of America (Audubon)

  Bismarck, Herbert

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Bismarck and Rothschild (Bauer)

  Blanc, Louis

  Blanqui, Auguste

  Blanvalet, Henri

  Bleichröder, Gerson

  Bleichröder, Samuel

  Blount, Edward

  see also Laffitte-Blount Group

  Blücher, Gebhard von

  Blum, Robert

  Board of Deputies of the British Jews

  Bocher, Charles

  Boer War

  Bonaparte, Jérôme

  Bon Ton

  “Book of Snobs” (Thackeray)

  Borch, Gerard ter

  Börne, Ludwig

  on Carl’s papal audience

  Judengasse described by

  on reactionary power of Rothschilds

  Boulton & Watts

  Brandt (banker)

  Braun (Rothschild employee)

  Brazil

  Bread, Meat and Coal Society

  Bridgewater, Earl of

  British Admiralty

  British Association for the Relief of the Extreme Distress in the Remote Parishes of Ireland and Scotland

  Brockhaus, F. A.

  Broglie, Achille-Charles de

  Brunswick

  Buccleuch, Duke of

  Buckingham, Duke of

  Buckinghamshire General Infirmary

  Buddenbrooks (Mann)

  Buderus, Karl

  Bullion Committee

  Bülow, Prince von

  Buol-Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von

  Burger, Anton

  Burgman, George

  Burke, Edmund

  Burma

  Bute, Marquess of

  Buxton, Edward

  Buxton, Thomas Fowell

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord

  Cadiz mutiny

  Caisse Générale

  Cambridge, Duchess of

  Cambridge, Duke of

  Campe, Julius

  Camphausen, Ludolf

  Canard Enchaîné, Le

  Canning, George

  Canning, Stratford

  Capefigue

  capitalism

  Judaism equated with

  Carême, Antonin

  Carlos, Don

  Carlos IV, King of Spain

  Carlsbad agreement (1830)

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Caroline, Queen of England

  Cassel, Joseph

  Castellane, Maréchal de

  Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord

  Catholic Church

  Caussidière, Marc

  Cavaignac, Eugène

  Cavour, Camillo di,

  Cazenove, James

  Central Hungarian Railway Company

  Chamber of Deputies, French

  Chamberlain, Joseph

  Champmartin, Charles-Emile

  Changarnier, Nicolas

  Charles Albert, King of Sardinia-Piedmont

  Charles X, King of France

  1830 revolution and

  Charlotte, Princess of England

  Chartreux Madonna (Van Eyck and Christi)

  Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de

  Chaumont, Treaty of (1814)

  Chekhov, Anton

  Chelius, Professor

  Cherubini, Luigi

  Chile

  Chirac, Auguste

  Chopin, Fryderyk

  Chotek, Count

  Christ as the Good Shepherd (Murillo)

  Christi, Petrus

  Churchill, Randolph

  Cicero

  Circular to Bankers

  Civil War, U.S.

  Clancarty, Earl of

  Clarence, Duke of

  Clarendon, George William Villiers, Lord

  Clarisse Harlowe ( Janin)

  Clary, Edmond de

  Clay, Henry

  Cleveland, Duke of

  C. M. von Rothschild

  Cobbett, William

  Cockerill, John

  Cohen, Hannah, see Rothschild, Hannah Cohen

  Cohen, Joseph

  Cohen, Juliana, see Rothschild, Juliana Cohen

  Cohen, Levi Barent

  Cohen, Salomon

  Cohen, S. J.

  Cohn, Albert

  Cologne Reinsurance Society

  Colombia

  Comédie humaine (Balzac)

  Committee on the Bank Charter, British

  Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord

  Confederation of the Rhine

  Congress, U.S.

  Congress of Aix-la-Chappelle

  Congress of Laibach

  Congress of Troppau

  Congress of Verona

  Congress of Vienna

  Jewish emancipation issue and

  Coningsby (Disraeli)

  “Conspiracy Nation” (Skolnick)

  Constitutional Assembly, French

  Constitutionnel

  Continental System

  Convention of Berlin (1808)

  Convention of London (1832)

  Corn Laws, British

  Corti, Luigi

  Corvetto (finance minister)

  Coston, Henry

  Cotton, W.

  Courier (London)

  Courrier Français

  Courrier des Spectacles

  Cousine Bette, La (Balzac)

  Coutts & Co.

  Cowles.

  Cranach, Lucas

  Crapouillot

  Crawshay, Richard

  Crédit Mobilier

  Crémieux, Adolphe

  Crimean War

  Croatia

  Cruikshank, George

  Cruikshank, Robert

  Cuba

  Curtis, Timothy

  Customs Union (Zollverein), Prussian

  Custozza, battle of

  Cuyp, Aalbert

  “Czar in Rothschild’s Castle, The,”

  Dairnvaell, Georges

  Dalberg, Karl Theodor Anton von

  Dalmatia

  Damas, Baron de

  Dantan, Jean-Pierre

  Darby, John

  Darmstadt, Grand Duke of

  Dashwood, John

  Daugherty, James

  David, Feidel

  Davidson, Benjamin

  Davidson, Lionel

  Davidson, Meyer

  Davillier, J. C.

  Decembrist movement

  Decree for the Future Management of the State Debt (1819), Prussian

  Delaporte (cartoonist)

  Delaroche, Paul

  Delessert, Benjamin

  Denison, William J.

  Denmark

  Derby, Earl of

  Devonshire, Duke of

  Dibdin, Thomas

  Dickens, Charles

  Dietrichstein, Count

  Dighton, Richard

  Dino, duchesse de

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  on Rothschild family unity

  Rothschilds in writings of

  Doloret (businessman)

  Domenichino (artist)

  Don Juan (Byron)

  Dreux, Alfred de

  Drummond (businessman)

  Drumont, Edouard

  Duckwitz, Arnold

  Dudley, Earl of

  Dufour, M.

  Dumas, Alexandre

  Dumon (French minister)

  Duncombe, Thomas

  Dundas, Henry

  Dunmore, Commissary-General

  Duponchel, Charles-Edmond

  Duras, duc de

  Duras, duchesse de

  East India Company

  Eckart, Dietrich

  Edict of Fontainebleau (1810)

  Edict of Toleration (1782)

  Edict of Trianon (1810)

  Edifying and Curious Histo
ry of Rothschild I, King of the Jews, The (Dairnvaell)

  Edward VII, King of England

  Egypt

  Eichendorff, Joseph von

  Eichtal, Adolph d’

  Elector of Hesse, see William IX, Landgraf of Hesse-Kassel

  Elector’s treasure myth

  Eliot, George

  Endymion (Disraeli)

  Enfantin, Prosper

  Entente Cordiale

  Ernst August, King of Hanover

  Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

  Espartero, Baldomero

  Esterházy, Carl

  Esterházy, Marie

  Esterházy, Paul

  Ewige Jude, Der (“The Eternal Jew”)

  Exemplary Life of the Immortal Banker Mr. Meyer Amschel Rothschild, The (Cohen)

  Eyck, Jan van

  False Industry, The (Fourier)

  Farrakhan, Louis

  Faucheréon

  Federal Reserve System

  Feidel (clerk)

  Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria

  Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies

  Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies

  Ferdinand VII, King of Spain

  Ferdinand VIII, King of Spain

  Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg

  Fesch, Joseph Cardinal

  Fettmilch, Vincenz

  Feydeau, Ernest

  Fidelio (Beethoven)

  Filtsch, Karl

  First Official Response of M. Baron James Rothschild

  Fitzroy, Arthur

  Fitzroy, Blanche

  Fitzroy, Charles

  Fitzroy, Henry

  Flandrin, Hippolyte

  Fleury, Joseph-Nicholas-Robert

  Fontainebleau, Edict of (1810)

  Forster, W. E.

  Fouché, Joseph

  Fould, Achille

  Fould, Benoît

  Fourier, Charles

  Fournier-Verneuil (publisher)

  France

  anti-Rothschild literature of

  Belgian question and

  bond conversion scheme and

  containment policy directed against

  crises of 1831-32 and

  1830 revolution in

  1841 loan to

  1847 banking crisis and

  1848 revolution in

  fiscal policy of 1834-41 of

  Jewish emancipation issue and

  Jews of

  July monarchy of

  Napoleonic War debt of

  post-Napoleonic War reparations by

  railway investment and

  Rothschild leverage and loans of 1831 to

  Second Peace of Paris and

  Spanish intervention by

  Spanish succession conflict and

  Thiers’s government and

  Tommaso affair and

  Francis Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

 

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