Nissim de Camondo
Nissim de Camondo 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 to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to be used to create the Musée Nissim de Camondo in his son's honor.
