Armand Heine

Armand Heine (1818 – 9 November 1883) was a Jewish banker and philanthropist born in Bordeaux, France, who later lived in his chateau and vineyard, Beychevelle in Bordeaux.{{cite book |title=La vigne: voyage autour des vins de France |last=Bertall |first=Charles Albert d'Arnould |year=2005 |publisher=Adamant Media Corporation |isbn=1-4212-1923-9 |pages=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HopHdJrIKoC&q=%22Armand+Heine%22&pg=PA183 |accessdate=2008-06-27}} With his brother Michel he founded the famous bank Armand & Michel Heine, in cooperation with Rothschild Frères & Co. in Paris, France, and New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Armand was married to Marie-Amélie Kohn, daughter of a famous, very rich Jewish family, born in Bohemia.{{cite book |title=Frankreich im fernen Osten: Imperialistische Expansion in Siam und Malaya |last=Brötel |first=Dieter |year=1996 |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |isbn=3-515-06838-4 |pages=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PdSNi5FrATIC&q=%22Armand+Heine%22&pg=PA31 |accessdate=2008-06-27}}

Armand Heine died in 1883 at Beychevelle, leaving 22000 francs in his will for the funding of housing for the poor of Paris.{{cite news |title=PEABODY HOMES IN PARIS. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1890/01/12/archives/peabody-homes-in-paris.html |work=The New York Times |date=1890-01-12 |accessdate=2008-06-27 |format=fee required}} You could read in the Paris newspapers of the time:

"Thanks to the generosity of the philanthropical society of the family of Michel and Armand Heine a whole series of new homes was built in Rue Jeanne d'Arc and Boulevard de Grenelle."{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}