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* From
nathin
, gibeonite descendant.
 
 
* Halévy, with
La Juive
(1835), created the new French opera form. His daughter Geneviève, later the famous hostess, married his best student, Georges Bizet. His nephew, Ludovic Halévy, wrote the libretto for Bizet’s
Carmen
, most popular of all French operas. His great nephew was the celebrated historian, Élie Halévy. See Myrna Chase,
Elie Halévy:
An Intellectual Biography (Columbia 1980).
 
 

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