Péreire brothers

Péreire brothers

The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. As the latter, they were Jews, but Sephardi of Portuguese origin.

Emile (1800-1875) and brother Isaac Péreire (1806-1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank. They also had large investments in a Transatlantic steamship line, railways, insurance, gas lighting, a newspaper and the Paris public transit system.

Eugène Péreire (1831-1908), son of Isaac, joined the enterprise and took over the running of the business empire on his father's passing. In 1909, Eugène's granddaughter Noémie Halphen married banking competitor, Maurice de Rothschild.

Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, one of the inventors of manual language for the deaf, was their grandfather. He was born in Portugal and established himself in France in 1741, where he became an interpreter for king Louis XV.

ee also

*Crédit Mobilier of America scandal
*Second French Empire
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