Jean de Neuflize

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Neuflize was born in Paris on 21 August 1850 into the prominent minority Protestant establishment of France. He was the eldest son of Jean André Poupart de Neuflize, 3rd Baron of Neuflize (1820–1868), and his wife, Marie Louise André (1826–1907).{{cite book |last1=of) |first1=Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis |title=The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe |date=1914 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |page=1074 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUm1lS2j-wQC&pg=PA1074 |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=en}}

His great-grandfather, Jean Abraham Poupart de Neuflize (who was made the first Baron of Neuflize in 1810),{{cite book |last1=Révérend |first1=vicomte Albert |title=Titres, anoblissements et pairies de la restauration 1814-1830 |date=1905 |publisher=Chez l'auteur et chez H. Champion |page=422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oLUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA422 |access-date=16 June 2020 |language=fr}} built the Château de Montvillers in 1770 in Bazeilles in the Grand Est region of northern France.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée {{Mérimée|IA08000327|IA08000327 Chateau of Montvillers}} {{in lang|fr}}

He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, followed by the Lycée Bonaparte.

Neuflize, a banker, succeeded his father as the head of the Banque de Neuflize et Cie in Paris, which had been founded in 1710 by his great-grandfather Jean Abraham Poupart de Neuflize, a draper from Sedan, Ardennes,{{cite book |last1=Bergeron |first1=Louis |last2=Palmer |first2=R. A. |title=France Under Napoleon |date=1981 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-00789-2 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rqe1UU6OiIUC&pg=PA131 |access-date=16 June 2020 |language=en}} and traced its lineage to seventeenth century Genoa.{{cite news |title=De Neuflize Bank Repels Take-Over Bid |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/18/archives/de-neuflize-bank-repels-takeover-bid.html |access-date=15 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=18 February 1972}}{{refn|group=lower-alpha|In 1945, Neuflize merged with the Banque Schlumberger (which had been formed in 1919).{{cite book |last1=Cassis |first1=Youssef |last2=Cottrell |first2=Philip L. |title=Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat, and Resurgence |date=2015 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-105461-7 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O01zCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA275 |access-date=16 June 2020 |language=en}} In 1966,{{cite news |title=Two French Banks Merged |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/06/02/archives/two-french-banks-merged.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 1966}} the Banque de Neuflize‐Schlumberger merged with La Banque Mallet Freres et Cie (founded 1713) to become the Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet (NSM).{{cite web |title=The Mallet Bank |url=https://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/the-mallet-bank/ |website=www.museeprotestant.org |publisher=Musée protestant |access-date=15 June 2020}} In 1972, Mees & Hope obtained a minority interest in the bank and in April 1980, Algemene Bank Nederland (one of the main predecessors in ABN AMRO) obtained a majority interest in NSM. In 1999, NSM acquired Banque Demachy to become NSMD.{{cite book |last1=Pohl |first1=Manfred |title=Handbook on the History of European Banks |date=1994 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-78195-421-8 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXvfNDHpfWwC&pg=PA220 |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=en}}}} His family's bank was among the most prominent banking houses of France, which included the Hottinguer, Mallet, Rothschilds and Vernes banks.{{cite book |last1=Bonin |first1=Hubert |title=Histoire de la Société Générale {{!}} 1864-1890, Naissance d'une Banque |date=2006 |publisher=Librairie Droz |isbn=978-2-600-01038-2 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAbQvqZjVJsC |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=fr}}{{cite book |last1=Berend |first1=Ivan |last2=Berend |first2=Tibor Iván |title=An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03070-1 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkL_xRYVbhwC&pg=PA153 |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=en}} He was succeeded in the bank by his second son, Jacques,{{cite news |title=BARON DE NEUFLIZE BACK.; Representative of Bank of France Says French Are Optimistic. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/04/14/archives/baron-de-neuflize-back-representative-of-bank-of-france-says-french.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 1917}} who was the representative of the Banque de French in America during World War I.{{cite news |title=SAYS FRANCE NEEDS CREDIT.; Baron de Neuflize Tells of Problems of Franco-American Trade. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/07/17/archives/says-france-needs-credit-baron-de-neuflize-tells-of-problems-of.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 July 1919}}

From 1902 until his death in 1928, he was a Regent of Banque de France, the central bank of France, and was serving as Dean of Regents at the time of his death. In 1904, he helped established the French investment bank Banque de l'Union Parisienne.{{cite book|last=Bitsch|first=Marie-Thérèse|title=La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne: 1905-1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5QLcaWYYN8C&pg=PA134|access-date=2013-06-17 |date=1994-01-01|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-85944-239-2}}{{cite book |last1=Consiglio |first1=Mr John A. |last2=Oliva |first2=Mr Juan Carlos Martinez |last3=Tortella |first3=Professor Gabriel |title=Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective |date=2013 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-4094-8285-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAaiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA330 |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=en}} He was also vice president of Paris, Lyons & Marseilles Railway, chairman of the board of directors of the Ottoman Bank, and president of the Évian Mineral Water Society.

In June 1900, Neuflize was awarded third place in the four-in-hand (mail coach) driving event during the International Horse Show in Paris. The show was part of the Exposition Universelle, and the equestrian events were later classified as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11841 |title=Jean, Baron de Neuflize |work=Olympedia |accessdate=15 February 2024}}

On 28 April 1874, Neuflize was married to Madeleine Dolfuss-Davilliers (1855–1926). She was born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency and was a daughter of Mathieu Dollfus and Laure Cécile Davillier, and granddaughter of industrialist Jean Dollfus. In Paris, they lived at 7 Rue Alfred-de-Vigny, a Hôtel particulier in the 8th arrondissement, Together, they were the parents of three children:

• André Poupart de Neuflize (1875–1949), who in 1903 married American heiress Eva Barbey (1879–1969),{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Wireless to THE NEW YORK |title=Robs Baroness de Neuflize Of $40,000 Gems in Paris |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/26/archives/robs-baroness-de-neuflize-of-40000-gems-in-paris.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 April 1938}} a daughter of Henry Isaac Barbey and Mary Lorillard Barbey and sister of Hélène Barbey (who married Count Hermann de Pourtalès).{{cite news|title=MISS BARBEY ENGAGED.; Daughter of the Late Henry Barbey of New York to Wed Gilbert Elliott.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/08/03/archives/miss-barbey-engaged-daughter-of-the-late-henry-barbey-of-new-york.html|access-date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=3 August 1910}}{{cite news |title=WEDDINGS OF A DAY; De Neuflize--Barbey. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/11/archives/weddings-of-a-day-de-neuflizeubarbey.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=11 February 1903}}
• Jacques Poupart de Neuflize (1883–1953),{{cite news |title=BARON DE NEUFLIZE DIES; French Banker Lectured Here and Wrote 'on' Finance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/01/17/archives/baron-de-neuflize-dies-ifrench-banker-lectured-here-and-wroteon.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 January 1953}} a banker who married Alixe Coche de la Ferté (1893–1923), a daughter of Alexandre Coche de la Ferté. After her death, he married Antoinette Meyer-Borel (d. 1942).
• Roberte Poupart de Neuflize (1892–1979), who married Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, the son of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough, in 1912.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |title=WEDS LORD DUNCANNON.; Baron Neuflize's Daughter Married to Lord Bessborough's Heir. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/06/26/archives/weds-lord-duncannon-baron-neuflizes-daughter-married-to-lord.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 June 1912}}{{cite web |title=Bessborough, Earl of (I, 1739) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/bessborough1739.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=15 June 2020}}

In 1897,{{cite book |last1=Milligan |first1=Rémi |title=Le Château des Tilles |date=2019 |publisher=Librinova |isbn=979-10-262-3793-8 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qeanDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12 |access-date=15 June 2020 |language=fr}} he built the Château des Tilles, a large Norman villa near Coye-la-Forêt in the Oise department in northern France near Chantilly.

Neuflize was appointed a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1900, and an officer in 1908.{{cite web |title=Poupart de Neuflize |url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/306199 |website=Base Léonore |publisher=Archives Nationale |location=France |language=French |access-date=2 February 2022}}

The Baron de Neuflize died on 20 September 1928 at Coye-la-Forêt. His funeral was held at the Père Lachaise Cemetery where he was buried.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=BARON J. NEUFLIZE DIES IN PARIS AT 78; Dean of Bank of France Regents Aided His Country Here During the War. HELPED TO OBTAIN CREDITS Persuaded American Bankers French People Had the Ability to Pay Back. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/09/22/archives/baron-j-neuflize-dies-in-paris-at-78-dean-of-bank-of-france-regents.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 September 1928}}

Through his eldest son, André, he was a grandfather of Jacqueline de Neuflize, who married Baron Jean de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris in 1937,{{cite news|title=MISS DE NEUFLIZE ENGAGED IN PARIS; Her Betrothal to Baron Jean de Watteville Berckheim Is Annotinced MARCH WEDDING PLANNED Bride-to-Be Is a Granddiughter of-Late Mr and Mrs. Henry Barbey of New York|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/21/archives/miss-de-neuflize-engaged-in-paris-her-betrothal-to-baron-jean-de.html|access-date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=21 February 1937}}{{cite news|title=MISS DE NEUFLIZE BRIDE IN CATHEDRAL; She Is Married in Paris to Baron Jean de Watteville-Berckheim of Alsace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/13/archives/miss-de-neuflize-bride-in-cathedral-she-is-married-in-paris-to.html|access-date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=13 March 1937}} Marie Madeleine de Neuflize,{{cite news |title=Wills for Probate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/10/02/archives/wills-for-probate.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 October 1938}} who married the Baron Christian de Turckheim{{cite book |last1=Neuflize |first1=André Poupart de |last2=Gayot |first2=Gérard |title=L' Entrepreneur et l'historien: deux regards sur l'industrialisation dans le textile (XVIIIe-XIXe siècle) |date=2013 |publisher=Presses Univ. Septentrion |isbn=978-2-7574-0457-7 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IcX7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 |access-date=16 June 2020 |language=fr}} (and resided at Château de Blanant in Lorraine),{{cite news |last1=Birkhead |first1=May |author-link=May Birkhead |date=18 September 1932 |title=HUNTING ENGAGES SOCIETY IN FRANCE; To Rent a Chateau in Shooting Districts Around Paris Is Now Quite the Thing to Do. MANY FOREIGNERS DEPART President Will Entertain at a Big Shoot at His Lodge Early In October. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/09/18/archives/hunting-engages-society-in-france-to-rent-a-chateau-in-shooting.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times}} and Genevieve de Neuflize (1907–1938), who married Count Costa de Beauregard (later the Marquis de Beauregard),{{cite news |last1=Birkhead |first1=May |author-link=May Birkhead |date=7 December 1930 |title=MLLE. DE NEUFLIZE OF PARIS ENGAGED; Daughter of Baron and Baroness de Neuflize to Wed Comte Costa de Beauregard. WADDELLS WILL SAIL SOON Son-in-Law and Daughter of Chief Justice Hughes to Go Home for Christmas Holidays. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/07/archives/mlle-de-neuflize-of-paris-engaged-daughter-of-baron-and-baroness-de.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The New York Times}} the son of Ferdinand Costa, Marquis de Beauregard.{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Upon their wedding, Count Costa de Beauregard inherited Château de Beauregard,:fr:Château de Beauregard (Chablais) the Beauregard family residence on Lake Geneva in Switzerland.{{cite news|title=MLLE. DENEUFLIZE BRIDE OF A COUNT; Great-Granddaughter of Late Pierre Lorillard Married to Costa de Beauregard. CEREMONY AT CHANTILLY Couple to Live in Chateau on Lake Geneva Inherited by Bridegroom on His Wedding Day.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/19/archives/mlle-deneuflize-bride-of-a-count-greatgranddaughter-of-late-pierre.html|access-date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=19 December 1930}}}}

Through his daughter, the Countess of Bessborough, he was a grandfather of four, including: Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913–1993), the Hon. Desmond Neuflize Ponsonby (1915–1925), who died young, Lady Moyra Ponsonby (1918–2016), and Lt. Hon. George St Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby (1931–1951).

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