Charles Nicolas Favart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Nicolas Favart

French playwright

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1749

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1806

Profession: actor, writer, playwright, stage actor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Charles Nicolas Joseph Justin Favart (17 March 1749 in Paris – 1 or 2 February 1806) was a French playwright at the Comédie-Italienne for two decades.
Favard was also an actor at the Comédie Française for fifteen years.
Usually known as Nicolas Favart, formally Charles-Nicolas Favart or C.-N.
Favart, he was simply Favart fils (Favart Jr) in his time. Favart was the son of the dramatist, Charles Simon Favart, and was himself a playwright.
He wrote a number of successful opéras comiques, such as Le Diable boiteux (1782) and Le Mariage singulier (1787).
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.