Geneviève de Peyras or Mme. Huet (died 1732) was a French perfumer.Vitu, A. (1883). La maison mortuaire de Molière: documents inédits. Frankrike: Lemerre. She was royal purveyor and supplier of perfume and cosmetics to the French royal family in 1711–1732.
Life and career
She married the Parisian perfumer François Huet the elder, official supplier, or marchande gantière-parfumeuse privilégiée suivant la cour ("priviliged official supplier of cloves and perfumes of the royal court").Camus Mignen, A. (2026). Les parfumeurs et la cour de France - De Louis XIV à Louis XVI. Kanada: PLACE DES EDITEURS. p.
Her husband owned an exclusive luxuy shop in Paris and belonged to a family who had the privilege to manufacture and supply the royal family and court with perfume, cloves, fans and different cosmetics such as powder.Camus Mignen, A. (2026). Les parfumeurs et la cour de France - De Louis XIV à Louis XVI. Kanada: PLACE DES EDITEURS. p.
When she was widowed in 1711, she inherited the business and office of her late spouse.Camus Mignen, A. (2026). Les parfumeurs et la cour de France - De Louis XIV à Louis XVI. Kanada: PLACE DES EDITEURS. p.
She died in Paris in 1732. She left her business to her son François Huet the younger (d. 1754), who was in turn succeeded by his widow Marie-Bénédicte Poton.
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