Eugène Pereire

Eugène Péreire (1 October 1831 – 21 March 1908) was a French financier and politician of Sephardic Jewish origin from Portugal.[1][2] The son of Isaac Péreire of the prominent Péreire brothers, he founded Banque Transatlantique in 1881.[3]

Eugène Péreire
Eugène Péreire by Charles Louis Gratia (1884)
Born(1831-10-01)1 October 1831
Paris, France
Died21 March 1908(1908-03-21) (aged 76)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationFinancier
Spouse
Juliette Fould
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(m. 1857)​

In 1857, Péreire married Juliette Fould of the Fould family. They had two daughters:

  1. Alice Pereire (1858–1931), married to Salomon Halfon, President of Banque Transatlantique 1909–23
  2. Marie Pereire (1860–1936), married to Jules Halphen, son of Eugène Halphen of the Halphen family

Péreire was a member of parliament for the Department Tarn from 1863 to 1869.

References
  1. Cardozo de Béthencourt, L. (1890). "Le trésor des Juifs Sephardim. Notes sur les familles françaises Israélites du rit portugais". Revue des études juives. 20 (40): 287–300.
  2. "PEREIRE - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
  3. Davies, Helen M. (2015). Emile and Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford University Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780719089237.
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