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maurice du bos , siegfried lehndorff and georg von lehndorff as ephrussi members of a referee committee at a horse-racing track in -lrb- baden-baden in 1902 first from left -rrb- with m. banque ephrussi siblings , marie : léon , ignaz , michel , thérèse 29 october 1916 paris , france judaism odessa , russian empire -lrb- now ukraine -rrb- mathilde elisabeth ephrussi de rothschild cohen charles -lrb- 1822-1888 -rrb- joachim ephrussi -lrb- 1792-1864 -rrb- & henriette halperson 18 november 1849 béatrice de rothschild paris , monte carlo , reux , saint-jean-cap-ferrat ephrussi dubos lehndorff 1902.jpg maurice ephrussi
 maurice ephrussi financier , racehorse owner/breeder
maurice ephrussi

maurice ephrussi -lrb- 18 november 1849 -- 29 october 1916 -rrb- was a french banker who also bred and raced thoroughbreds .
a member of the ephrussi family , maurice ephrussi was born in the free port of odessa where his father founded the ephrussi bank and was involved in the business of exporting wheat .
trained in the banking business , maurice ephrussi 's elder half-brother , ignaz , was sent to vienna to open the ephrussi & co. bank while maurice and his older brother michel were sent to open a branch in paris , france .
through banque ephrussi 's activities involving the rothschild family 's oil business in the baku area of present-day azerbaijan maurice ephrussi met béatrice de rothschild .
she was the daughter of alphonse de rothschild , a head of the wealthy and powerful rothschild banking family of france .
maurice ephrussi and béatrice de rothschild were married in paris on 5 june 1883 .
they maintained a home in paris , a villa in monte carlo called `` rose de france '' , and in the early 1900s built villa ephrussi de rothschild at saint-jean-cap-ferrat .
maurice and béatrice ephrussi were avid art collectors and his cousin , charles ephrussi , proprietor of the `` gazette des beaux-arts '' in paris , was a patron of the impressionists .
