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Georges Hirsch
French theatre director (1895–1974)
Georges Hirsch (22 February 1895 – 12 May 1974)[1] was a French theater director, a member of the French Resistance, and municipal councillor of Paris.
He was a director of the Paris Opera from 1946 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1959. Married to the singer Madeleine Mathieu, he is the father of Professor Jean-François Hirsch, creator of the first paediatric neurosurgery department at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and of Georges-François Hirsch, also director of several Parisian theatres.