Eugène Péreire (1 October 1831 – 21 March 1908) was a French financier and politician of

Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

origin from Portugal. The son of Isaac Péreire of the prominent

Péreire brothers Émile Pereire (3 December 1800, Bordeaux - 5 January 1875, Paris) and his brother Isaac Pereire (25 November 1806, Bordeaux – 12 July 1880, Gretz-Armainvilliers) were major figures in the development of France's finance and infrastructure duri ...

, he founded

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in 1881. In 1857, Péreire married Juliette Fould of the

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. They had two daughters: # Alice Pereire (1858–1931), married to Salomon Halfon, President of Banque Transatlantique 1909–23 # Marie Pereire (1860–1936), married to Jules Halphen, son of

Eugène Halphen Eugène Halphen (5 July 1820 – 27 December 1912) was a French historian, poet and book editor. Early life Eugène Halphen was born on 5 July 1820 in Paris, France. Career Halphen was a historian. He also composed poetry under the pen name of ...

of the Halphen family Péreire was a member of parliament for the Tarn department from 1863 to 1869.

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1831 births 1908 deaths Politicians from Paris Pereire family Fould family 19th-century French Sephardi Jews French people of Portuguese-Jewish descent Bonapartists Members of the 3rd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of Parliament for Tarn French financiers French engineers Lycée Condorcet alumni École Centrale Paris alumni {{Tarn-politician-stub