{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques de Reinach | image = Baron de Reinach.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|4|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|11|19|1840|4|17|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
[[File:The Panama Canal; Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of Wellcome L0031403.jpg|thumb|Carricature: ''The Panama Canal'': Baron de Reinach is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.]]
Baron '''Jacob Adolphe Reinach'''<ref>Not to be confused with the Alsatian line of the barons of Reinach.</ref> (17 April 1840 – 19 November 1892), known as '''Jacques de Reinach''' was a French banker of Jewish German origin, involved in many major financial deals before being brought down by the Panama scandals. 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.
==Life==
He settled in Paris at the end of the 1850s and in 1863 founded the bank Kohn-Reinach with his brother in law, international financier {{Interlanguage link multi|Édouard Kohn|fr}}. On 6 May 1863, he married his first cousin Fanny Emden. 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 political, financial and artistic Paris.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/12/04/106810581.pdf|title=Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach : The Financier Whose Death Upset the Loubet Ministry|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> He also bought the château de Nivillers, a village in Picardy, of which he became mayor in 1884.
===Panama scandal=== {{main|Panama scandals}}
==Fictional depiction== In the 1898 novel ''Paris'', Émile Zola based baron Duvillard on Jacques de Reinach.<ref>{{cite web |language=French |first=Jean-Yves |last=Mollier |title=Littérature et presse du trottoir à la Belle Époque |work= in Études françaises |volume= 36, n° 3 |year= 2000 |page=84 |url=http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudfr/2000/v36/n3/009724ar.pdf}}</ref> More recently, Reinach's suicide is a plot point in Eric Zencey's novel ''Panama''.
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