Isaac Pereire (25 November 1806 – 12 July 1880) was a French politician and businessman.

Early life

He was born in

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to broker and maritime insurer Isaac Rodrigues Pereire and his wife Rebecca Lopès-Fonseca, making him the grandson of the scholar, linguist and

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Jacob Rodrigue Pereire, nephew of Isaac Rodrigues-Henriques and younger brother of

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, who proved closely involved in his fortune and all his financial dealings. Isaac senior welcomed Isaac junior to Paris, where the latter based himself.

Career

He was one of the first administrators of the Chemins de fer de Lyon and created the 3 0/0 type of railway bonds, later adopted by all major French railway companies. He was a member of the Paris committee of the

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from 1863 to 1868. Conseiller général for

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, he was elected deputy to the

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on 1 June 1863 by the single constituency of

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. That election was invalidated and he was re-elected the following 20 December, sitting in the dynastic majority. He wrote notable articles on economic questions for the newspaper '' La Liberté'', in which he had bought a large number of shares in 1875 and which later belonged to his son Gustave. He also set up a 100,000 franc prix for the best paper on poverty and - in memory of Jacob Rodrigue Pereire - found an école for deaf-mutes in Paris in 1875. He died at the château d'Armainvilliers in

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in 1880 and is buried in division 3 of the

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Personal life

His first marriage was to Rachel da Fonseca (1812-1837), with whom he had : *

Eugène Pereire Eugène Péreire (1 October 1831 – 21 March 1908) was a French financier and politician of Sephardic Jewish origin from Portugal. The son of Isaac Péreire of the prominent Péreire brothers, he founded Banque Transatlantique in 1881. In 1857 ...

(1831-1908), financier, businessman, deputy for Tarn * Georges Pereire (1836-1854) After Rachel's death, he remarried in 1841 to his niece Fanny Pereire, daughter of his brother Émile and his wife Rachel Rodrigues-Henriques. They had : * Gustave Pereire (1846-1925), press baron, financier, art patron and father of the writer

Alfred Pereire Alfred-Isaac Pereire (30 January 1879, Paris – 28 November 1957, Paris, aged 78) was a 20th-century French historian and bibliographer. Biography Ths son of Gustave Pereire and grandson of Isaac Pereire, he was conscripted during the First W ...

(1879-1957) * Henriette Pereire (born 1853), wife of

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* Édouard Pereire (1855-1876)

Works

* ''Leçons sur l’industrie et les finances prononcées à la salle de l’Athénée, suivies d’un projet de banque'' (1832)
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* ''Rôle de la

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et organisation du crédit en France'' (1864) * ''Budget de 1877'' (1877) * ''Question financière'' (1877) *''La réforme de l'impôt'' (1877) * ''La Question des chemins de fer'' (1879)
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* ''La Question religieuse'' (1879) * ''Politique financière'' (1879)

References

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