FAVART

(fi-vir), Charles Simon, creator of the serio-comic opera in France, born 1710, died in 1792, the 401 BAVERSHAM son of a pastry-cook. His poetical reputation rests principally on his numerous productions for the opéra aux It aliens, and the comic opera. He also wrote Mémoires et correspond ance lit iéraircs (1808) He was the director of a company of itinerant actors which followed Marshal Saxe into Flanders. His wife, Madame Favart, was a famous singer, comic actre , and dancer, and helped in the composition of her husband’s plays. FA’/VERSHAM, municipal borough and seaport of England, Kent, on a branch of the Swale, giving name toa parliamentary division. It is a very ancient place, and has manufactures of brick, cement, and gunpowder. Faversham Creek is navigable up to the town for ve els of 200 tons. Pop. (1931), 10,091.