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Jacques Bizet (10 July 1872 – 3 November 1922) was a French physician and businessman best known for his long friendship with novelist Marcel Proust. He was the son of composer Georges Bizet, who died when the boy was three and before his works gained success. His mother was Geneviève Halévy, who became known as a literary hostess.
- 3 November 1922 (aged 50), Paris, France
- 10 July 1872, Paris, France
- Physician, Company Director
May 24, 2018 · Her books include: Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France (2003); Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006); and Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris (2003), which won the French Heritage Society Book Prize, was shortlisted for the ...
In 1857, in response to a competition organized by Jacques Offenbach who was looking for new material for his Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Bizet completed his second operetta, Le Docteur Miracle. Bizet and Charles Lecocq shared first prize and Miracle was mounted at the theater, helping to spread Bizet's name in the right circles.
Apr 13, 2000 · Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography, which had two winners. Here...
Dec 1, 2000 · Proust’s Way. Love, death, society, art, time, timelessness--and (perhaps) the greatest novelist of the 20th century. by Algis Valiunas. Among the great modern artists, some seem to possess a boundless vitality, a spiritual extravagance that, even in the face of life’s hot suffering, causes them to profess their gratitude for the very fact ...
Feb 14, 2013 · By now, Proust’s epic seven-volume novel (the last three were published posthumously in the 1920s) has become a touchstone of Western literature. And the new exhibition at the Morgan in honor of...
Jacques Bizet (10 July 1872 - 3 November 1922) was a French physician and businessman best known for his childhood friendship with the novelist Marcel Proust, whom he predeceased by fifteen days when he committed suicide.[1] The composer Georges Bizet (who died in 1875 when Jacques was not quite...
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