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- salon-holder Geneviève Halévy, later Geneviève Bizet and Geneviève Straus, was a French salonnière. Background Geneviève Halévy was the daughter of the composer Jacques-Fromental Halévy and his wife, née Léonie Rodrigues-Henriques, both Jewish.
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Marie-Geneviève Raphaëlle Halévy-Bizet-Straus (26 February 1849 – 22 December 1926) was a French salonnière who was the wife of composer Georges Bizet. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913).
Geneviève Halévy, aussi connue sous les noms de Mme Bizet et Mme Straus, est une salonnière française, née à Paris le 26 février 1849 où elle est morte le 22 décembre 1926. Elle a été mariée au compositeur Georges Bizet puis au richissime avocat Émile Straus.
Jun 23, 1996 · The second generation produced Geneviève (1849-1926), Fromental's daughter, Georges Bizet's wife and a friend of Marcel Proust who used her as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes ; Ludovic (1834-1908), the author together with Henri Mailhac of the most famous libretti by Offenbach ; and Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829-1870), Léon's natural ...
- June 23, 1996
- March 26, 1996
In June 1869, Bizet married Geneviève Halévy, the nervously unstable daughter of the composer Fromental Halévy. Her family initially opposed the match, considering him an unsuitable catch: ‘penniless, left-wing, anti-religious and Bohemian’.
Marie-Geneviève Raphaëlle Halévy-Bizet-Straus (26 February 1849 – 22 December 1926) was a French salonnière who was the wife of composer Georges Bizet. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913).
May 21, 2018 · In the aristocratic, predominantly Catholic gratin, Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus was an anomaly because she was a Jewish bourgeoise.
So if Geneviève Bizet Straus, Laure de Chevigné, and Élisabeth Greffulhe found their way into the Search, it was because they had managed to intrigue and mesmerize not only the likes of Proust, but all of Belle Époque France.
