Suzanne Jeanne Marie Peignot (née Rivière, 25 September 1895 – 25 April 1993), was a French soprano, a privileged interpreter of the group Les Six.

She took singing lessons with Madame Ronceret (who introduced her to Claude Debussy, with whom she had her first auditions), with Baroness Medem, and with the wife of Louis Fourestier.

The Six (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre) but also Jean Cocteau followed one another at her home, quai Voltaire, Erik Satie, Ricardo Viñes, André Gide, Henri Sauguet, Léon-Paul Fargue, Max Jacob, Roger Désormière and Marcel Herrand.

She frequents the Delmas restaurant, the Gaya bar, the Café de la Rotonde, the Salle Huyghens, and Le Bœuf sur le toit, where her husband "multiplies the follies: he wraps himself up in a screen to remove his clothes and, with his chest adorned with a simple tie, has the names of the prettiest women of the evening noted on his bust".

Simply, with impeccable articulation, this singer knows how to give to the air of Zaïde's "Dors en paix," "Oiseaux si chaque année" by Mozart, a pure charm and the right accents.

Interpreter of unpublished works by Nicolas Nabokof, Suzanne Peignot plays with the traps innocently set by the author who writes with a freedom like no other!

Francis Poulenc's music, with its delicacy and melodic charm, also suits this sensitive and distinguished artist; her interpretation of the Cinq Poèmes was spiritual and warm.

In 1940, she took refuge in Cannes with her three children (including the future poet Jérôme Peignot, capable according to her "to tell [his] mother, on her return from the studio, that the B in the Air champêtre was not as good on the radio as at home".

She also liked to recall that she had offered there the hospitality of one evening to Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, who feared being followed by the Gestapo after having pushed a German into the sea.

After the war, she still gave a few concerts: at the Embassy in The Hague in 1947; at the Church of Auteuil in honour of the parents of Max Jacob who died in deportation; she created the Six poems of André de Richaud by Henri Sauguet in 1947; she created La petite princesse by Florent Schmitt in 1948; she took part in many radio broadcasts ("Jean Wiéner could phone her in the late evening to ask her to come and sing for him the next morning at seven o'clock on the radio; on arrival at the studio, the composer had not yet written the accompaniment to his melodies: he would then sit down at the piano, play a few chords, spell out one or two arpeggios... and we would record".

One day, without knowing it, Olivier Messiaen "congratulated the house for the competence of the saleswoman, the one he had thanked for having interpreted Le collier and La prière exaucée in 1935"".

François Le Roux and Renaud Machart remembered her in 2013 on France Musique: "She was a woman who, like Louise de Vilmorin, had this mixture of great class and calculated vulgarity".

Poulenc's proverbial lack of enthusiasm for making his music work did not prevent complicity: "When they had not achieved a satisfactory result, he would only say to her, in the nasal and straightforward manner that characterised him: "You sang like a pig.

"[7] In 1961, the two were almost killed in a violent car accident on the way to Auric's house, from which they escaped unharmed; she reported that he confided to her that he almost wished he had "died like that, a brutal death, without noticing it".