Halévy, Jacques François Elias, a French operatic composer, born at Paris; became a professor at the Conservatoire; wrote a large number of operas, of which “La Juive” and “L'Éclair” were the best, and enjoyed a European reputation (1799‒1862).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hales, Stephen * Halévy, Joseph