Etienne Gustave Frédéric van Zuylen de Nyevelt

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Étienne van Zuylen van Nyevelt

Van Zuylen was born in Saint-Étienne, near Nice, on 16 October 1860, a member of the old Dutch Van Zuylen van Nievelt noble family; he was the 3rd Baron van Zuylen van Nyevelt van de Haar. His father, Gustave, was a diplomat and his grandfather, Jean-Jacques was a former mayor of Bruges. On 16 August 1887, Van Zuylen married Hélène de Rothschild, daughter of Salomon James de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of France, in Paris. They had two sons, Egmont and Hélin. Hélin was killed in a car accident in 1912, and Egmont worked as a diplomat; his eldest child was Parisian socialite Marie-Hélène de Rothschild.

In 1890, Van Zuylen inherited the ruined De Haar Castle and set about restoring it. Financed by Rothschild money and directed by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers, work started in 1892 and took 20 years.[5]

Van Zuylen received recognition with appointments as an officer of the Legion of Honour, and as a knight of the Order of Leopold.

Van Zuylen died in Nice on 8 May 1934.

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Born in Belgium in 1860 to a prominent family of ambassadors and statesmen, Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt was a banker by profession and married into the Rothschild family. An enthusiast of motorcars and a modern thinker, he devoted much of his life to the development of the FIA as we known it today.

In 1895, he co-founded the Automobile Club de France (ACF). The French initiative to found an automobile club was so successful that other countries soon followed suit. Mindful of the practicality of the automobile and its potential as a means for international travel, Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt concentrated on promoting this concept to enthusiasts of the new technology.

In 1904, de Zuylen de Nyevelt was elected President of both the ACF and the newly-established Association Internationale Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR). He was succeeded by Count Robert de Vogüé at the ACF in 1922, while remaining in power at the AIACR for 27 years. During this period Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt oversaw the regulation of The Gordon Bennett Cup and encouraged the popular city-to-city races of the first decade of the 20th century, working hard with national authorities to facilitate cross-border motor tourism.

Upon his retirement in 1931, he was made President of Honour at the AIACR in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the international automobile. Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt passed away in Nice in May 1934.

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