Editing Henri Bergson (section)

===Early years ===
Bergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the [[Palais Garnier]] (the old Paris opera house) in 1859. His father, the composer and pianist [[Michał Bergson]], was of [[Polish-Jewish]] background<ref name="Gelber">{{cite encyclopedia | url= https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587502673.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150329105853/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587502673.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 29 March 2015 |title=Bergson |first= Nathan Michael |last= Gelber |encyclopedia= [[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]|date= 1 January 2007 |access-date=7 December 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Dynner 2008 104–105">{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jVtp3s8CtScC&pg=PA102 |title= Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society |author-link= Glenn Dynner|first= Glenn|last= Dynner|year= 2008|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn= 978-0195382655 |pages= 104–105}}</ref><ref name="britannica.com">[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson Henri Bergson]. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014</ref><ref name="Z ziemi polskiej do Nobla">{{Cite news | title = Z ziemi polskiej do Nobla | url = http://www.wprost.pl/ar/140524/Z-ziemi-polskiej-do-Nobla/?O=140524&pg=2 | newspaper = Wprost | publisher = Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa Wprost | location = Warsaw | date = 4 January 2008 
 | access-date = 10 May 2010 | language = pl |trans-title= From the Polish lands to the Nobel Prize | quote = Polskie korzenie ma Henri Bergson, jeden z najwybitniejszych pisarzy, fizyk i filozof francuski żydowskiego pochodzenia. Jego ojcem był Michał Bergson z Warszawy, prawnuk Szmula Jakubowicza Sonnenberga, zwanego Zbytkowerem (1756–1801), żydowskiego kupca i bankiera. [Translation: Henri Bergson, one of the greatest French writers, physicists and philosophers of Jewish ancestry, had Polish roots. His father was Michael Bergson from Warsaw, the great-grandson of Szmul Jakubowicz Sonnenberg – known as Zbytkower – (1756–1801), a Jewish merchant and banker.] }}</ref><ref name="dziedzictwo.polska.pl">[http://dziedzictwo.polska.pl/katalog/skarb,Testament_starozakonnego_Berka_Szmula_Sonnenberga_z_1818_roku,gid,261356,cid,3312.htm?body=desc Testament starozakonnego Berka Szmula Sonnenberga z 1818 roku] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110928215838/http://dziedzictwo.polska.pl/katalog/skarb%2CTestament_starozakonnego_Berka_Szmula_Sonnenberga_z_1818_roku%2Cgid%2C261356%2Ccid%2C3312.htm?body=desc |date= 28 September 2011 }}</ref> (originally bearing the name ''Bereksohn''). His great-grandmother, [[Temerl Bergson]], was a well-known patroness and benefactor of Polish Jewry, especially those associated with the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] movement.<ref name="Gelber"/><ref name="Dynner 2008 104–105"/> His mother, Katherine Levison, daughter of a Yorkshire doctor, was from an [[History of the Jews in England|English-Jewish]] and [[History of the Jews in Ireland|Irish-Jewish]] background. The Bereksohns were a famous Jewish entrepreneurial family<ref name="britannica.com"/> of Polish descent. Henri Bergson's great-great-grandfather, {{ill|Szmul Zbytkower|lt=Szmul Jakubowicz Sonnenberg called Zbytkower|pl|Szmul Zbytkower}}, was a prominent banker and a protégé of [[Stanisław II Augustus]],<ref name="Z ziemi polskiej do Nobla"/><ref name="dziedzictwo.polska.pl"/> king of Poland from 1764 to 1795.

Bergson's family lived in London for a few years after his birth, and he obtained an early familiarity with the English language from his mother. Before he was nine, his parents settled in France, and Henri became a naturalized French citizen.

Bergson married Louise Neuberger, a cousin of [[Marcel Proust]], in 1891. (Proust served as [[groomsman#best man|best man]] at the wedding.)<ref>Suzanne Guerlac, ''Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson'', Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2007, p. 9.</ref> Henri and Louise Bergson had a daughter, Jeanne, born deaf in 1896. Bergson's sister, Mina Bergson (also known as [[Moina Mathers]]), married the English [[occult]] author [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], a founder of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], and the couple later relocated to Paris.