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.

A year later, Geneviève and Élie-Miriam Delaborde, a close friend of both her and her late husband, signed a marriage contract.

She opened a salon for her cousin Ludovic Halévy, where she helped him in receiving the artistic society of the time.

In 1886, Geneviève Bizet married lawyer Émile Straus, an acquaintance of the Rothschild family.

Her salon became increasingly fashionable: She received Robert de Montesquiou and his cousin Comtesse Greffulhe, painters and journalists.