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Eugène Pereire

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Eugène Péreire
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
OccupationFinancier
Spouse
Juliette Fould
(m. 1857)

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]

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 Tarn department from 1863 to 1869.

References

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  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.