L'Hôtel Goldschmidt
19 Rue Rembrandt, Paris, 8th Arrondisement
Built in 1872, for the banker and art collector Leopold Goldschmidt (1830-1904). It was designed in the Neo-Classical style overlooking the Parc Monceau by the Dutch architect William Bouwens van der Boijen (1834-1907). Goldschmidt's bank merged with the Bank of Paris and has since become BNP-Paribas. He was the patron of the symbolist painter, Gustave Moreau, and his home with filled with art by the likes of Fragonard and Durer etc. In his era, the house was known as L'Hôtel du Parc Monceau and two years after his death it was purchased by the socially impaired American banker, James Stillman, (related to the Rockefellers) whose bank is known today as Citibank....
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Having bought the mansion in 1906, Stillman divided his time between here and his magnificent French mansion in New York at 9 East 72nd Street that was later the home of the Lycée Français de New York. Stillman was not known for his charity in America, but in Paris he gave 500,000 francs in 1914 to the French government to help victims of the Great War followed up by a a further one million francs to the Order of the Legion of Honor. In the year before he died (1917), he allowed his Parisian home to be converted into a military hospital. The house remains privately owned today.
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