20 Facts About Jacques Bizet

Jacques Bizet was a French physician and businessman best known for his long friendship with novelist Marcel Proust.

Jacques Bizet was the son of composer Georges Bizet, who died when the boy was three and before his works gained success.

Jacques Bizet's mother was Genevieve Halevy, who became known as a literary hostess.

Jacques Bizet was born in Paris to composer Georges Bizet and his wife Genevieve Halevy.

Jacques Bizet was named for his father's patron and his cousin and grandfather, Jacques-Fromental Halevy.

Georges Bizet died suddenly when the boy was three, and he became particularly close to his mother.

Jacques Bizet's school followed the curriculum created by Marie Pape-Carpantier.

Jacques Bizet's cousin and contemporary Daniel Halevy started at the same school at the same time: he was a large child and soon established himself as the school bully.

Jacques Bizet wrote a succession of letters to the cousins expressing his feelings with an openness that shocked and unsettled them.

Jacques Bizet wrote several subsequently forgotten theatre pieces, influenced by the plays of Pierre de Marivaux and Oscar Wilde.

Jacques Bizet enrolled at the University of Paris as a medical student.

Jacques Bizet joined the bandwagon, becoming a director of "Taximetres Unic de Monaco", a substantial taxi business that had been founded by the Rothschilds.

Jacques Bizet worked with Paris automobile manufacturer Georges Richard, who was extensively funded by the Rothschilds.

In 1909 Salomon left to set up business independently of Richard: Jacques Bizet joined with him to establish the automobile manufacturer known as Le Zebre.

Salomon was the engineer-entrepreneur while Jacques Bizet was the principal source of funds for the enterprise.

Two years later, after the outbreak of the Great War, Jacques Bizet served as a military physician at the Saint-Martin Hospital.

On 1 June 1898 Jacques Bizet had married a distant cousin, Madeleine Camille Breguet, in Paris.

Jacques Bizet died on 15 October 1900 while undergoing an operation by surgeon-gynecologist Samuel Jean de Pozzi.

Several years later Jacques Bizet married again in 1904, to Alice Franckel.

Jacques Bizet committed suicide, fatally shooting himself, ostensibly over matters involving his mistress.