Georges Hirsch

At the Conseil municipal de Paris [fr], Hirsch must face anti-Semitism from Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, who does not hesitate to come to blows: Over and over again, Darquier opposes within the Council itself with his Jewish colleagues on the definition of what is being "French".

Maurice Hirschovitz [fr], Georges Hirsch, Raphaël Schneid, all three have at one time or another claimed that they were "more French" than him.

At the end of the session [of June 4, 1936], he [Darquier de Pellepoix] waited in the Council's changing rooms for the "dirty little Jew" in question, Georges Hirsch, and committed an attack on him that quickly turned into a brawl between colleagues.

[3]Re-elected from 1944 to 1945, then from 1959 to 1965, he was appointed head of the Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux [fr] from 1946 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1959.

Hirsh died in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1974 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (89th division).