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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.
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’. The marriage was intermittently happy and produced a son, Jacques. 10 images.
May 21, 2018 · The story of the Kardashian-like reign of Elisabeth Greffulhe, Laure de Sade, and Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus. A woman is not born an It girl, she becomes one. Throughout most of history ...
Geneviève Halévy and her older sister Esther (born in 1843) studied piano with Charles Gounod. The death of Geneviève’s father in 1862 and of her sister in 1864 precipitated a chronic melancholy, which was eventually mitigated by the creation of her salon.
In 1869 Bizet married Genevieve Halévy, daughter of the composer Fromental Halévy. This was not well received by Genevieve's family who felt she was marrying beneath her, but with her father dead and her period of mourning over, she felt a compulsion to renew life.
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Who was Geneviève Halévy? Geneviève Halévy, later Geneviève Bizet and Geneviève Straus, was a French salonnière. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in À la recherche du temps perdu. Geneviève Halévy was the daughter of the composer Jacques
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