Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach (17 April 1840, Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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 - 19 November 1892, Paris), known as Jacques de Reinach was a French banker of Jewish German origin, involved in many major financial affairs of the era and finally brought down by the Panama scandal. He was the son of Clementine Oppenheim (1822–1899) and her husband Adolphe de Reinach (1814–1879), Belgian consul in Frankfurt, ennobled in Italy in 1866 and then confirmed as a noble by William I of Germany.

Banker

He settled in Paris at the end of the 1850s and in 1863 founded the banque Kohn-Reinach with his brother in law, the international financier Édouard Kohn. On 6 May 1863 he married his first cousin Fanny Emden. Their children were Henriette-Clémentine (who married Joseph Reinach

Joseph Reinach

Joseph Reinach was a French author and politician.He was born in Paris. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well known in the field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887...

), Lucien and Juliette-Maximilienne. He served in the National Guard during the siege of Paris

Siege of Paris

The Siege of Paris, lasting from September 19, 1870 – January 28, 1871, and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces led to French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire as well as the Paris Commune....

 in 1870 and was naturalised as a French citizen in 1871.

His affairs prospered with the construction of the chemins de fer de Provence and investments in Canadian Pacific in Canada

Canada

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. His hôtel particulier

Hôtel particulier

In French contexts an hôtel particulier is an urban "private house" of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it...

 at Parc Monceau

Parc Monceau

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 became the rendez-vous for all political, financial and artistic Paris. He also bought the château de Nivillers

Nivillers

Nivillers is a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise....

, a village in Picardy

Picardy

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, of which he became mayor in 1884.

Panama scandal

In 1878 he was linked with Cornelius Herz

Cornelius Herz

Cornelius Herz was born in Besançon, France on September 3, 1845 and he died in Bournemouth, England on July 6, 1898. He was a French-American doctor, electrician, businessman and famous politician of Jewish German origin, implicated in the Panama scandals....

, also of German origin. Herz, after having made his fortune in the United States ...

Fictional depiction

• In the 1898 novel Paris, Émile Zola
  Émile Zola
  Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
  
  based baron Duvillard on Jacques de Reinach.