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Geneviève Halévy. 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. Elle a été un des modèles du personnage de la duchesse de Guermantes ...
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 ...
Jul 13, 2018 · Watching, following, and even stalking them as a young law student in the 1890s, he idolized Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade (great-granddaughter of the Marquis), who became ...
May 22, 2018 · Genevieve Halevy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adheaume de Chevigne; and Elisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siecle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons ...
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Straus, Emile (nom marital) Birth. 1849, Paris, Paris (75), France. Death. ... Commentary. Salonnière française, épouse en première noces de Georges Bizet, connue ...
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On November 3, 1922, Jacques Bizet committed suicide; his death was followed fifteen days later by the death of his mother’s beloved Proust. Geneviève Straus died on December 22, 1926. Her obituary by Robert de Flers appeared the next day in Le Figaro: “With her departs an incomparable woman, unique, with infinite grace, and a supreme spirit.
