Background
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.
librettist private sector banker
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
Their children were Henriette-Clémentine (who married Joseph Reinach), Lucien and Juliette-Maximilienne. He served in the National Guard during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 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.
His hôtel particulier at Parc Monceau became the rendez-vous for all political, financial and artistic Paris.
He also bought the château de Nivillers, a village in Picardy, of which he became mayor in 1884. Panama scandal
In the 1898 novel Paris, Émile Zola based baron Duvillard on Jacques de Reinach.
More recently, Reinach"s suicide is a plot point in Eric Zencey"s novel Panama.