The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation, Philanthropy In All Its Forms

La Gazette Drouot
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The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation’s distinctions are among the most generous and prestigious in the world, yet it keeps a low profile. Read more about a philanthropic organization driven by the desire to have an impact in the real world. The courtyard façade of the Hôtel Péreire, which houses the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation© Victor Point Émile Pereire’s mansion stands unobtrusively next to the hôtels particuliers (mansions) of bankers Abraham and Nissim de Camondo and Henri Cernuschi. Despite the fortune amassed by Pereire, who, with his brother, founded the Compagnie générale maritime and the railroad from Paris to

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