Banking patriarch Guy de Rothschild dies
PARIS: BARON Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family’s French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98. Rothschild, also known for his family’s renowned wines and
his thoroughbred racehorses, died Tuesday in Paris, his family said in an announcement in Le Figaro daily on Thursday. The cause of death was not given. -AP