Favart was born in Paris in 1784.[2] He was the grandson of Charles-Simon Favart and Marie Justine Benoite Duronceray, a celebrated actress of her time.[2] Favart's father, Charles Nicolas Joseph Favart, was also a dramatist and an actor.[3]
He entered the French diplomatic service, where he gained some distinction. He became a consul of France in Russia, secretary of the Duke of Caraman and the Duke de Polignac, in charge of diplomatic missions, he established ties with the playwright and poet Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy of whom he made an oil portrait in 1846. He has left many caricatures in the press and portraits for the Galerie théâtrale. He was afterward appointed a consul in Mons (Belgium).
Amédée Marandet, Manuscrits de la famille Favart, 1922, (p. 40)
Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, 1913, (p. 275)
References
^Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du théâtre, Vol.4, 1973, p.258
^ abThomas, Joseph (2009). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology: Clu-hys. New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc. pp. ccxxii. ISBN978-1-61640-070-5.
^Warrack, John; West, Ewan (1996). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, USA. p. 161. ISBN0-19-280028-0.
^Charlton, David; Ledbury, Mark (2019). Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797): Theatre, Opera and Art. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. p. 161. ISBN978-0-429-64025-4.
