L'union d'Émile II Pereire et Suzanne Chevalier. À propos des mariages mixtes sous le Second Empire

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On April 5th 1864, in the city-hall of the 8th district of Paris Emile II Pereire marries Suzanne Chevalier. Born in 1840, Isaac Emile Pereire is the son of the banker Emile Pereire. His wife Suzanne is the daughter of Guillaume August Chevalier, who had been in particular the principal private secretary to Napoleon III, and the niece of Michel Chevalier. The families are already linked by their common adherence to the theories of the Saint-Simonism. The scandal which occurred after the religious marriage – among a part of the assistance – reveals the tensions which exist about weddings between Jews and Catholics in the Church itself. The inquest carried out following the initiative of the apostolic nuncio in Paris can also be understood as part of the struggle between the Paris Archbishop, Monsignor Darboy, a “gallican”, and the Hierarchy of the Vatican. On the occasion of this wedding the highest Christian officials are finally induced to make the position of the Church clear about the disparity of worship between the husband and his wife. Precisions will then be pointedly expressed about the part which must be that of the priest, and the liturgy which must be respected according to the Episcopal hierarchy.