Émile Pereire (3 December 1800,
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
- 5 January 1875, Paris) and his brother Isaac Pereire (25 November 1806,
Bordeaux
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– 12 July 1880,
Gretz-Armainvilliers) were major figures in the development of France's finance and infrastructure during the
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the French Second Republic, who proclaimed hi ...
.
The Pereire brothers challenged the dominance of the
Rothschilds
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in continental European finance, known at the time as ''haute finance''. Their attempt was temporarily successful, and even though it collapsed in the late 1860s, it contributed to a more developed and vibrant economic landscape. Like the Rothschilds, the Pereires were
Jews
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, but unlike them, they were
Sephardi
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of
Portuguese origin.
Family
The brothers' grandfather was
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, one of the inventors of
sign language
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for the deaf, who was born in Spain and established himself in France in 1741, where he became an interpreter for King
Louis XV
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. Jacob Rodrigues Pereire (as he went by in French) married Miriam Lopès Dias, a Sephardic Jew from
Bayonne
Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...
, in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
in 1766. Their son Isaac (1770-1806) was conscripted during the
French Revolutionary Wars
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and in 1800 married Rebecca Henriette Lopès Fonseca (1777-1827), daughter of Mardochée Lopès Fonseca and Esther de Daniel Delvaille, both also Sephardic Jews from
Bayonne
Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...
who had moved to Bordeaux in 1788. They had three male children, of whom the second, Mardochée Télèphe (1803-1820) died in young age.
In 1824 Emile Pereire married his cousin Herminie Rodrigues, whose mother was Henriette's sister. They had five surviving children: Fanny (born 1825), Cécile (born 1829), Claire (born 1834), Isaac-Emile (known as Emile II, born 1840) and Henry (born 1841).
In 1830 Isaac Pereire married Rachel Laurence Lopès Fonseca, a cousin of both him and Herminie; they had two sons, Eugène (born 1831) and Georges (born 1836). After Laurence's untimely death in 1837 he remarried with his niece Fanny in August 1841. Their three surviving children were Gustave (born 1846), Henriette (born 1853) and Jeanne (born 1856). Two other boys, Jules (1843) and Julien (1845) died in infancy, and a disabled one, Edouard, died in 1876 at age twenty-one.
Eugène, Emile II, Henry and Gustave all studied at
École Centrale Paris
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
. Several of the Pereire children married into established families of French ''haute finance'' and business elite. Claire in 1853 married Georges Thurneyssen, son of the Protestant banker and Pereire business partner Auguste Thurneyssen. Eugène in 1859 married Juliette Betzi Fould, daughter of Emile Fould, the Pereires' notary and himself a cousin of
Achille Fould. Emile II in 1864 married Suzanne Chevalier, daughter of
Michel Chevalier
Michel Chevalier (; 13 January 1806 – 18 November 1879) was a French engineer, statesman, economist and free market liberal.
Biography
Born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Chevalier studied at the ''École Polytechnique'', obtaining an engineering ...
's brother Auguste. Henriette married , a businessman and politician.
Eugène Pereire, Isaac's elder son, led much of the remaining family business upon his father's death in 1880. His granddaughter
Noémie Halphen married
Maurice de Rothschild
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France.
Early life
Maurice de Rothschild was born on 19 ...
from the family of the Pereires' longstanding competitors. Gustave's son
Alfred Pereire was a noted historian and bibliographer.
Business development

Emile and Isaac Pereire moved from Bordeaux to Paris in 1822 and 1823 respectively, where they initially lived in the house of their uncle , a banker. They became followers of
Saint-Simonism
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (; ; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on po ...
. They kept their commitment to Saint-Simonian beliefs despite their break with
Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin
Barthélemy, or Barthélémy is a French name, a cognate of Bartholomew. Notable people with this name include:
Given name
* Barthélemy (explorer), French youth who accompanied the explorer de La Salle in 1687
* Barthélémy Bisengimana, Con ...
in the early 1830s.
The Pereire brothers founded a leading
business conglomerate
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. Enterprises created or sponsored by the Pereires included:
* the created in 1835, with service inaugurated in 1837, merged in 1855 into the Pereires'
Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, one of France's main railways companies, merged in 1908 into the
Chemins de fer de l'État
The Administration des chemins de fer de l'État (, "State Railway Administration"), often referred to in France as the Réseau de l'État (, "State Network"), was an early state-owned French railway company.
History
The company was establishe ...
* the
Crédit Mobilier bank, founded in 1852 and subsequently the backbone of the Pereire group, taken over by the
Banque de France
The Bank of France ( ) is the national central bank for France within the Eurosystem. It was the French central bank between 1800 and 1998, issuing the French franc. It does not translate its name to English, and thus calls itself ''Banque de ...
in 1867 following the difficulties of the ''Compagnie Immobilière''
* the
Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi, created in 1852, one of the major French railway companies until their nationalization into
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th ...
in 1938
* the
Château Palmer winery in the
Margaux AOC
Margaux is a wine growing commune and Appellation d'origine contrôlée within Haut-Médoc in Bordeaux, centred on the village of Margaux. Its leading (''premier cru'') château is also called Margaux. It contains 21 cru classé châteaux, mo ...
region near
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, purchased by the Pereires in 1853 and kept in the family until its sale in 1938
* the , created in 1854 to operate Paris's public transport system, merged in 1921 into
Société des transports en commun de la région parisienne, now
RATP Group
The RATP Group () is a French state-owned enterprise (Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial, EPIC) that operates public transport systems primarily in Paris, France. Headquartered in Paris, it originally operated under th ...
* the , created in 1855 to operate Paris's gas lighting concession, liquidated in 1905 with the concession's expiry
* the
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, and commonly named "Transat"), typically known overseas as the French Line, was a French shipping company. Established in 1855 by the brothers Émile and Issac Péreire under the name ''Compagnie ...
shipping company, created in 1855 as ''Compagnie Générale Maritime'', one of the predecessor entities of
CMA CGM
The Compagnie maritime d'affrètement - Compagnie générale maritime or CMA CGM is a French shipping and logistics company founded in 1978 by Jacques Saadé.
The name is an acronym of two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètemen ...
* The building later known as
Louvre Saint-Honoré, with the Grand Hôtel du Louvre and retail mall ''Magasins du Louvre'' on its street level, created in 1855 and at the root of the
Groupe du Louvre
* the Compagnie Immobilière de Paris, formed in 1856 and which in 1863 absorbed 's ailing ''Société des Ports de Marseille'', itself taken over by the
Banque de France
The Bank of France ( ) is the national central bank for France within the Eurosystem. It was the French central bank between 1800 and 1998, issuing the French franc. It does not translate its name to English, and thus calls itself ''Banque de ...
together with the
Crédit Mobilier in 1867 and eventually liquidated in 1881
* the fire and accident company ''La Confiance'' and the house insurance company ''La Paternelle'', both controlled from 1859, both among the predecessor entities of
Axa
Axa S.A. is a French multinational insurance corporation headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It also provides investment management and other financial services via its subsidiaries. As of 2024, it is the fourth largest financi ...
* the which operated major warehousing facilities in and around Paris, created in 1860, now part of
Icade
ICADE is the brand name by which two schools of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid (Spain), are known. It stands for '' Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas'' (''Catholic Institute of Business Adminis ...
* The Spanish insurance company ''El Fénix Español'', created in 1864 and merged in 1879 to form , now part of
Allianz
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Allianz is the world's largest List of largest insurance ...
The Pereires were also instrumental in the creation and/or development of businesses they did not effectively control. These included:
* the
Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, created in 1848, one of the main predecessor entities of
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas (; sometimes referred to as BNPP or BNP) is a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris. It was founded in 2000 from the merger of two of France's foremost financial instituti ...
* the
Crédit Foncier de France
Crédit Foncier de France (, CFF) was a major French bank, active from 1852 to 2019 when its activities were entirely subsumed into Groupe BPCE, although the brand name appears to remain active.
History
The Crédit Foncier (English: landed cre ...
, created in 1852, now part of
Groupe BPCE
BPCE (for Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne) is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups, Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021, it was France's fourth-largest bank, the ...
* the
Darmstädter Bank
The ''Bank für Handel und Industrie'' in Darmstadt, often referred to as ''Darmstädter Bank'', was a significant joint-stock bank in Germany, active from 1853 until its merger with Nationalbank für Deutschland to form Danat-Bank in 1922.
Ove ...
, created in 1853–54, forcibly merged into
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Bank AG () was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually ...
in 1931
* the
Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways
The Imperial-Royal State Railways () abbr. ''kkStB'') or Imperial-Royal Austrian State Railways (''k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen'',The name incorporating "Austrian" appears, for example, in the 1907 official state handbook (''Staatshandbuch'' ...
, created in 1854 and dismantled into national companies in 1918
* the
Sociedad de Crédito Mobiliario Español bank, created in Madrid in 1855-56 and reformed in 1902 as the
Banco Español de Crédito, now part of
Banco Santander
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* the
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, created in 1856
* the railway company in Russia, created in 1856
* the
CompañÃa de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España
The Compañia de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España (CCHNE), known simply as Norte, was a Spanish railway company founded on December 29, 1858. Its network was one of the most extensive in Spain, until it was Nationalization, nationalized ...
railway company in Spain, created in 1858 and nationalized in 1941
* the in
Saint-Nazaire
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The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Oc ...
, created in 1862 to build ships for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, one of the predecessor entities of the
Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Chantiers de l'Atlantique is a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire, France. It is one of the world's largest shipyards, constructing a wide range of commercial, naval, and passenger ships. It is located near Nantes, at the mouth of the Loire, ...
* the
Credito Mobiliare in
Turin
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, taken over by restructuring a former Rothschild venture in 1862 on the model of the
Crédit Mobilier, liquidated in 1894 in the crisis context of the formation of the
Bank of Italy
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* the
Imperial Ottoman Bank
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, reformed in 1863, eventually merged in 2001 into
Garanti Bank
* the
Crédit Foncier d'Autriche, created in 1864
Even though the Pereires were not involved, their success with the
Crédit Mobilier was taken as a model for the creation in 1856 of the
Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft
The ''Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft'' (BHG, ) was a significant German joint-stock bank, founded in 1856 in Berlin. It relocated to Frankfurt following World War II.
On (with retroactive effect at ), BHG merged with Frankfurter Bank to form , ...
, the , and the
Stockholms Enskilda Bank.
The Pereires also sponsored coal mining developments in Lorraine and Northern France.
Politics and media
The Pereires were deeply involved in French politics. Emile Pereire was member of Parliament (''député'') for the département of
Gironde
Gironde ( , US usually , ; , ) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749. between 1863 and 1869. Isaac was similarly ''député'' for the
Pyrénées-Orientales
Pyrénées-Orientales (; ; ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a departments of France, department of the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spain, Spanish ...
between 1863 and 1869, and for the
Aude
Aude ( ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it " ...
in 1869–1870. Isaac's son
Eugène was also a ''député'' in the
Tarn during the same period.
They also maintained a lifelong involvement in public debates through the media. In the 1820s Emile wrote regularly in ''
Le Globe
''Le Globe'' was a French newspaper, published in Paris by the Bureau du Globe between 1824 and 1832, and created with the goal of publishing Romantic creations. It was established by Pierre Leroux and the printer Alexandre Lachevardière. Aft ...
'' and from 1830, in ''
Le National''. In November 1871, Isaac acquired the conservative newspaper ''
La Liberté'' from
Émile de Girardin
Émile de Girardin (; 22 June 180227 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism ...
, and heavily influenced its editorial line in the later 1870s.
Downfall
In the mid-1860s, the Pereires' alliances in the ''haute finance'' began to fray. Their attempt to challenge the issue monopoly of the
Banque de France
The Bank of France ( ) is the national central bank for France within the Eurosystem. It was the French central bank between 1800 and 1998, issuing the French franc. It does not translate its name to English, and thus calls itself ''Banque de ...
through the restructuring of the
Bank of Savoy
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, the note-issuing bank of the former
Duchy of Savoy
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It was created when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, raised the County of Savoy into a duchy f ...
which had come under French rule following the
Treaty of Turin (1860)
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, was resented by the Pereires' former associate . In 1866–7, the Pereire group underwent a severe crisis largely triggered by the burden of their developments in
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
. The Pereires were forced to relinquished control of the
Crédit Mobilier on 14 September 1867, at the demand of the Banque de France. Even so, they kept some of their wealth and properties, but had to face numerous lawsuits in the ensuing years and in 1872 were compelled to sell their art collections.
In any case, the Pereires' heyday came to an end with the demise of the Second Empire, with which they had been deeply associated. One of the Second Empire's key political protagonists,
Persigny
Jean-Gilbert Victor Fialin, Duc de Persigny (11 January 1808 – 12 January 1872) was a statesman of the Second French Empire.
Biography
Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse in the Loire, where his father was Receiver of Taxes, and was ...
, would thus write in his memoirs:
Family properties

In 1852 the Pereires bought a vast estate in
Gretz-Armainvilliers and commissioned their favorite architect to build a palatial country house there in the early 1860s, the ''Château d'Armainvilliers'', to rival the
Rothschilds
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt. The family's documented history starts in 16th-century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, ...
' nearby
Château de Ferrières
Château de Ferrières () is a French château built between 1855 and 1859 for Baron James de Rothschild in the Goût Rothschild style located in central France, some 26 km east of Paris. Rothschild ownership of the Château de Ferrières w ...
; it was bombed by mistake by the
US Air Force
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in 1944 and demolished in 1950.
In 1854 they purchased the
hôtel particulier
() is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...
on 15
Place Vendôme
The Place Vendôme (), earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madelein ...
to make it the headquarters of the
Crédit Mobilier, and kept it as such until 1867. The same building was transformed into a luxury hotel in 1898 by
César Ritz
César Ritz, born Cäsar Ritz (23 February 1850 – 26 October 1918), was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the The Ritz London Hotel, Ritz and Carlton Hotel, London, Ca ...
and is now the
Hôtel Ritz Paris
The Ritz Paris is a hotel in central Paris, overlooking the Place Vendôme in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement. A member of The Leading Hotels of the World marketing group, the Ritz Paris is ranked among the most luxur ...
.
In 1855 they acquired their urban mansion, the ''Hotel Pereire'' on 35-37
rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré () is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow and nondescript, especially in comparison to the nearby Champs-Élysées, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being on ...
, initially built in 1713, and had it extensively renovated until 1859, also by Armand. That property was purchased by the British government in 1947 and is now the
Embassy of the United Kingdom in Paris.
Their villa in
Arcachon
Arcachon (; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for p ...
, built in 1863–1854 in their real estate development there, was demolished in 1959.
Legacy
The Pereires were active in real estate development and created some of the most iconic urban landscapes of the era. These included the
Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare (; ), officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline List of Paris railway stations, railway station terminals in Paris, France. It was the first railway station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It mostly ...
, first opened in 1842 as one of the main railway stations in Paris; the
Parc Monceau
Parc Monceau (; English: Monceau Park) is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of the Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotunda. The park covers ...
neighborhood in Paris, on grounds around the park which they purchased from the
Orléans family in 1861; the in
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
, started by and continued by the Pereires; and the holiday resort of
Arcachon
Arcachon (; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for p ...
, developed from 1862.
The in Paris, above the Pereires’ , was given their name in 1863, an extremely rare distinction for living individuals. The nearby was called ''Place Pereire'' until 1973. In the same neighborhood, the
Pereire Metro Station and
Pereire–Levallois RER station also carry their name. Other public spaces bearing the Pereires' name are in
Arcachon
Arcachon (; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for p ...
(''Plage Pereire'', ''avenue du Parc Pereire'', ''allée Emile Pereire''),
Bayonne
Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...
(''place Pereire''),
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
(''rue Emile Pereire''),
Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison () or simply Rueil is a Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department, ÃŽle-de-France Regions of France, region. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is ...
(''rue Pereire''), and
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the ÃŽle-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. ...
(''rue Pereire''). The former ' in
Asnières-sur-Seine
Asnières-sur-Seine () is a Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department and Île-de-France Regions of France, region of north-central France. It lies on the left bank of the river Seine, some eight kilometr ...
has been renamed after native son
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; i ...
.
The Bourbon ros
Isaac Pereire'' bred in 1881 by
Armand Garcon, is named after Isaac's second wife, Fanny.
Gallery
File:Saint-Lazare Europe-4.jpg, Original station of the on , 1837
File:SaintGermain Pereire.jpg, Plaque in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the ÃŽle-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. ...
highlighting Émile Pereire's role in developing the neighborhood above the new railway in 1837
File:Gare de Paris-Saint-Lazare 001.jpg, Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare (; ), officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline List of Paris railway stations, railway station terminals in Paris, France. It was the first railway station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It mostly ...
in Paris, the terminal of the Pereires' Chemins de fer de l'Ouest
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created in the early 1840s
File:Inauguration du chemin de fer du Midi de Bordeaux à Sète. - FRAC31555 26Fi101 (cropped).jpg, Toulouse-Matabiau station created by the Pereires for the Chemins de fer du Midi
The Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi (, . CF du Midi), also known in English as the Midi or Southern Railway, was an early French railway company which operated a network of routes in the southwest of the country, chiefly in the area betwe ...
, 1857
File:Paris Place de l'Opéra 1.jpg, The Pereires' ''Grand Hôtel'', now InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel
The InterContinental Paris Le Grand is a historic luxury hotel in Paris, France, which opened in 1862.
History
Le Grand Hôtel was built by the wealthy brothers Isaac & Émile Pereire and designed by Alfred Armand, who had previously designed ...
(1862), with the Café de la Paix
The Café de la Paix () is a famous café located on the northwest corner of the intersection of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l'Opéra, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed in the Na ...
on the street level
File:Marseille Rue Republique old.jpg, The ''rue Impériale'' (on the right), now ' in Marseille
File:Château Palmer 2015.jpg, Château Palmer
File:Chateau-Pereire (Armainvilliers).jpg, The former Pereire country house in Gretz-Armainvilliers
File:Hotel Ritz Paris.jpg, Former headquarters of the Crédit Mobilier, now Hôtel Ritz Paris
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File:Ambassade Royaume-Uni Paris 1.jpg, The ''Hotel Pereire'' on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré () is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow and nondescript, especially in comparison to the nearby Champs-Élysées, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being on ...
File:Arcachon - villa Péreire.jpg, The former Pereire Villa in Arcachon
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File:Tombe Pereire.JPG, Burial place of the Pereire-Rodrigues family including Emile and Isaac Pereire, Montmartre Cemetery
The Cemetery of Montmartre () is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemet ...
, Paris
File:Plaque Frères Pereire, Promenade Pereire, Paris 17.jpg, Memorial plaque on in Paris, named Place Pereire until 1973
File:Entrée Métro Pereire Paris 3.jpg, Pereire Metro Station in Paris
File:Gare Pereire Levallois Paris 1.jpg, Pereire Levallois RER station in Paris
See also
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Rothschild family
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Compagnie du chemin de fer Grand-Central de France
The Compagnie du chemin de fer Grand-Central de France (, ''Grand-Central Railway Company of France''), commonly known as the Compagnie du Grand-Central, or more simply the Grand-Central, was a railway company which operated in France from 1853 ...
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Crédit Mobilier of America scandal
Notes
Further reading
* Kurt Grunwald, "Europe's Railways and Jewish Enterprise: German Jews as Pioneers of Railway Promotion." ''Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook'' 12.1 (1967): 163–209, on Rothschild and the Pereire brothers.
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