Three French composers

For some reason, I had always associated Georges Bizet, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy together as similar genre composers.  Of course, they were all French.  But when I finally checked on this, while Debussy and Ravel were certainly both contemporaries and followed similar musical pathways ("impressionistic" works rather than the more traditional classical oeuvre), Bizet was earlier, and much more classical.  I also had forgotten that Bizet died young -- smoking will kill ya -- in fact, dying the year Ravel was born.  Ravel  crossed over into the 20th century even more than Debussy, who died in 1918, whereas Ravel died in 1937.  Even though they didn't collaborate on music, Ravel and Debussy knew each other, played compositions together, and were featured jointly in concerts. They went different ways later in their lives, partly because they each garnered a  following that didn't like the music of the other composer.  Ravel's most famous piece, 'Bolero', was also one of his last major compositions.