The Camondo family and their museum in Paris

Part of the Sephardic community in Spain, the Camondo family settled in Venice after the 1492 Spanish decree that ordered the expulsion of all Jews who refused conversion to Catholicism. There, some of its members became famous for their scholarship and for the services which they rendered to their adopted country. Following the Austrian takeover of Venice in 1798, members of the Camondo family established themselves in Istanbul.
The Camondo family flourished as merchants in the business section at Galata on the outskirts of Istanbul. They branched into finance in 1802 with the founding of their own bank, Isaac Camondo & Cie.
On Isaac's death in 1832, his brother Abraham Salomon Camondo inherited the bank. He prospered greatly and became the prime banker to the Ottoman Empire until the founding of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in 1863.
After Abraham Salomon Camondo's son Raphaël died. In 1869, the eighty-six-year-old patriarch followed his grandsons Behor Abraham Camondo (1829-1889) and Nissim Camondo (1830-1889) to Paris, France, a city the family had previously frequented and where they had established business connections.
His two grandsons remained in Paris and continued to successfully expand their banking business. They maintained close ties to the Ottoman Empire.
Isaac de Camondo (1851-1911), Moïse’s first cousin and his elder by nine years, was born in Constantinople. He arrived in France with his parents at the age of eighteen. He was involved in the family business at an early age, becoming the bank’s agent then General Consul of the Ottoman Empire from 1891 to 1895 - and thus a prime link between his family and the Ottoman power. From 1894 he began to distance himself from the world of finance to allow his artistic side to flourish.
Moïse de Camondo was an art collector and donated his mansion with a unique collection of furnitures to the French government. The mansion is now the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris.
This family is now extinct after the last descendants died: Nissim de Camondo was a lieutenant of the French air force and was killed in aerial combat during World War I in 1917, his father Moïse de Camondo died in 1935, then his sister Béatrice de Camondo, along with her two children (Fanny and Bertrand) and her ex-husband Léon Reinach, were deported and murdered in Auschwitz around 1944 during World War II.
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