Nissim de Camondo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French officer and pilot
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Nissim de Camondo
- Nissim de Camondo (1892 – 1917) was a French military officer and a member of the prominent Camondo family.
- Named for his grandfather, he was the son of Moïse de Camondo, a wealthy Jewish banker and countess Irène Cahen d'Anvers.
- As the only son of two children, Nissim de Camondo was expected to take over the family business.
- However, immediately upon the outbreak of World War I, he joined the French Army, then served as a pilot in the Aéronautique Militaire.
- Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo died in 1917 during aerial combat in Lorraine, and he was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.
- On his death in 1935, Moïse de Camondo bequeathed his Parisian mansion at 63, rue de Monceau (including its contents and a major collection of art) to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to be used to create the Musée Nissim de Camondo in his son's honor.
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