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> '. Jules Isaac Mirès (December 5, 1809, Bordeaux – June 6, 1871, Marseille) was an important French banker, pressman and financier of the 19th century.

Co-founder, with Moïse Millaud, of the Caisses des actions reuniones in 1850, he launched with him, three years later, Le Petit Journal, which would become one of the main press organs of the Third Republic. Under the Second Empire, he did business with Isaac Pereire, creating Crédit Mobilier. Mirès invests in railways (in France, Italy, Spain), in mines, in the port of Marseille, etc. A trial in 1861, for fraud, signaled the beginning of his fall.

The previous year, the scandal of the bankruptcy of his Caisse général des chemins de fer inspired Jules Vallès to write his novel L'Argent[1]. This racing car from the firmament of finance”. – Siegfried Kracauer[2].

=Family=

Born into a Jewish family of Portuguese origin, his father, Mathieu Mirès, was a small watchmaker and shopkeeper from Bordeaux. Isaac is the product of his father's second marriage to Esther Cavalion. From a rather modest background, he seems to have no taste for school which he left very young, preferring truant school and the street where he learned the hard way of life but already showed resourcefulness arrangements. Cet autodidacte va révolutionner le monde de la finance encore prisonnière de son corset d'Ancien Régime.