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Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach.
Ludovic Halévy (born Jan. 1, 1834, Paris, Fr.—died May 8, 1908, Paris) was a French librettist and novelist who, in collaboration with Henri Meilhac, wrote the librettos for most of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and who also wrote satiric comedies about contemporary Parisian life.
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French dramatist; born in Paris Jan. 1, 1834; a son of Léon Halévy and a nephew of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy. He was educated at the Lycéc Louis le Grand in Paris; after graduating he entered the service of the government.
Sep 26, 2016 · Ludovic Halévy’s father, Léon, converted from Judaism to marry his Christian wife. Daddy, a civil servant, was respected in literary circles, though he never achieved much fame in whichever literary genre he tried – and, apparently, he tried them all! The Halévys were a cultured Parisian family.
He was elected to the Académie Française in 1884. In his later years he revealed a consciousness of his Jewish heritage. Ludovic Halévy's two sons were the philosopher and historian Elie *Halévy (1870–1937), and the historian and essayist daniel halÉvy (1872–1962).
In Bizet’s opera, the character Micaëla—a foil for Carmen representing the life Don José leaves behind—is an invention of librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, as are Carmen’s companions Mercédès and Frasquita.
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Walter Barnes, Ludovic et Louise Halévy, leurs enfants et leurs amis devant la maison du docteur Emile Blanche à Dieppe
