Philippe Guillaume

1815, London. Nathan Rothschild brought off a spectacular stock market operation by spreading rumours of Napoleon's victory at Waterloo. This first true case of insider trading in recorded financial history allowed Charlotte de Saint-Hubert and her brother Christian to realise that money rules the world... The siblings, a pair of aristocrats who fled the French Revolution without a penny to their name, would become the first of a long-lasting family dynasty that would, between the early 19 th century and the end of the 20th, operate within the world of finance - for better and for worse...