Charles Nicolas Favart

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Charles Nicolas Joseph Justin Favart (1749-1806), was a French actor at the Comédie Française for fifteen years.

He was the son of the dramatist, Charles Simon Favart, and was himself a dramatist. He wrote a number of successful plays: Le Diable boîteux (1782), Un Ménage singulier (1787) and, with his father, La Vieillesse d'Annette (1791). His son Antoine Pierre Charles Favart (1780-1867) was in the diplomatic service, and assisted in editing his grandfather's memoirs; he was a playwright and painter as well.