:52:05
That's a portrait
of the family founder.
:52:08
He came from Hamburg.
:52:10
They're all German.
Very austere.
:52:14
Not German. Hanseatic.
:52:16
Germany didn't exist
in the 18th century.
:52:22
It was the English
:52:23
who discovered wine
in Bordeaux
:52:27
under Eleanor of Aquitaine.
:52:32
- Back in the 13th century?
- Exactly.
:52:33
You're better off buying wine
in advance
:52:36
from a Protestant.
:52:39
With Protestants, you've got
the guarantee of reliability.
:52:45
With Catholics,
making money is a source of guilt.
:52:52
In Latin cultures, money
has never smelled good. Never.
:52:59
The Rothschild name
:53:01
has a resonance
that goes beyond being Jewish.
:53:09
The Rothschilds
rose through the centuries
:53:12
and became a legend.
:53:14
Today, people have completely
forgotten that they're Jewish.
:53:19
Not a problem. Ever.
:53:21
No importance at all.
:53:24
Jews were always well received
in Bordeaux.
:53:27
Take the Perreires.
They were Portuguese Jews.
:53:30
The Gradis,
also Portuguese Jews.
:53:33
The Perreires owned
Château Palmer until 1938.
:53:37
And in 1938?
:53:38
Well, they sold everything.
The War was coming.
:53:42
And the family disappeared.
:53:47
The market for Bordeaux, at the end
of the War, at the late 40's,
:53:50
was European, but mostly English.
The UK.
:53:56
And during the War,
it was the Germans, right?
:53:58
The Germans, yes.