Péreire brothers

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The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. 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.