certain anomalous occurrences of fossils were due to repeated interfoldings of the strata and to complicated overthrust faults. In 1867 he published Recherches géologiques dans les parties de la Savoie, du Piémont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont Blanc. He died at Geneva in June 1890.
His son Ernest Favre (b. 1845) has written on the palaeontology and geology of Galicia, Savoy and the Fribourg Alps, and of the Caucasus and Crimea.
FAVRE, JULES CLAUDE GABRIEL (1809–1880), French
statesman, was born at Lyons on the 21st of March 1809, and
began his career as an advocate. From the time of the revolution
of 1830 he openly declared himself a republican, and in
political trials he seized the opportunity to express his opinions.
After the revolution of 1848 he was elected deputy for Lyons
to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among the moderate
republicans, voting against the socialists. When Louis Napoleon
was elected President of France, Favre made himself conspicuous
by his opposition, and on the 2nd of December 1851 he tried with
Victor Hugo and others to organize an armed resistance in the
streets of Paris. After the coup d’état he withdrew from politics,
resumed his profession, and distinguished himself by his defence
of Felice Orsini, the perpetrator of the attack against the life
of Napoleon III. In 1858 he was elected deputy for Paris, and
was one of the “Five” who gave the signal for the republican
opposition to the Empire. In 1863 he became the head of his
party, and delivered a number of addresses denouncing the Mexican
expedition and the occupation of Rome. These addresses,
eloquent, clear and incisive, won him a seat in the French
Academy in 1867. With Thiers he opposed the declaration of
war against Prussia in 1870, and at the news of the defeat of
Napoleon III. at Sedan he demanded from the Legislative
Assembly the deposition of the emperor. In the government of
National Defence he became vice-president under General Trochu,
and minister of foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating
peace with victorious Germany. He proved to be less adroit
as a diplomat than he had been as an orator, and committed
several irreparable blunders. His famous statement on the
6th of September 1870 that he “would not yield to Germany
an inch of territory nor a single stone of the fortresses” was a
piece of oratory which Bismarck met on the 19th by his declaration
to Favre that the cession of Alsace and of Lorraine was the
indispensable condition of peace. He also made the mistake
of not having an assembly elected which would have more regular
powers than the government of National Defence, and of opposing
the removal of the government from Paris during the siege. In
the peace negotiations he allowed Bismarck to get the better
of him, and arranged for the armistice of the 28th of June 1871
without knowing the situation of the armies, and without
consulting the government at Bordeaux. By a grave oversight
he neglected to inform Gambetta that the army of the East
(80,000 men) was not included in the armistice, and it was thus
obliged to retreat to neutral territory. He gave no proof whatever
of diplomatic skill in the negotiations for the treaty of Frankfort,
and it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He
withdrew from the ministry, discredited, on the 2nd of August
1871, but remained in the chamber of deputies. Elected senator
on the 30th of January 1876, he continued to support the government
of the republic against the reactionary opposition, until his
death on the 20th of January 1880.
His works include many speeches and addresses, notably La Liberté de la Presse (1849), Défense de F. Orsini (1866), Discours de réception à l’Académie française (1868), Discours sur la liberté intérieure (1869). In Le Gouvernement de la Défense Nationale, 3 vols., 1871–1875, he explained his rôle in 1870–1871. After his death his family published his speeches in 8 volumes.
See G. Hanotaux, Histoire de la France contemporaine (1903, &c.); also E. Benoît-Lévy, Jules Favre (1884).
FAVUS (Lat. for honeycomb), a disease of the scalp, but occurring
occasionally on any part of the skin, and even at times on
mucous membranes. The uncomplicated appearance is that
of a number of yellowish, circular, cup-shaped crusts (scutula)
grouped in patches like a piece of honeycomb, each about the
size of a split pea, with a hair projecting in the centre. These
increase in size and become crusted over, so that the characteristic
lesion can only be seen round the edge of the scab. Growth
continues to take place for several months, when scab and
scutulum come away, leaving a shining bare patch destitute
of hair. The disease is essentially chronic, lasting from ten to
twenty years. It is caused by the growth of a fungus, and
pathologically is the reaction of the tissues to the growth. It
was the first disease in which a fungus was discovered—by
J. L. Schönlein in 1839; the discovery was published in a brief
note of twenty lines in Müllers Archiv for that year (p. 82),
the fungus having been subsequently named by R. Remak
Achorion Schönleinii after its discoverer. The achorion consists
of slender, mycelial threads matted together, bearing oval,
nucleated gonidia either free or jointed. The spores would
appear to enter through the unbroken cutaneous surface, and
to germinate mostly in and around the hair-follicle and sometimes
in the shaft of the hair. In 1892 two other species of the
fungus were described by P. G. Unna and Frank, the Favus
griseus, giving rise to greyish-yellow scutula, and the Favus
sulphureus celerior, causing sulphur-yellow scutula of a rapid
growth. Favus is commonest among the poorer Jews of Russia,
Poland, Hungary, Galicia and the East, and among the
same class of Mahommedans in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria,
Persia, Egypt, Algiers, &c. It is not rare in the southern departments
of France, in some parts of Italy, and in Scotland. It
is spread by contagion, usually from cats, often, however, from
mice, fowls or dogs. Lack of personal cleanliness is an almost
necessary factor in its development, but any one in delicate
health, especially if suffering from phthisis, seems especially
liable to contract it. Before treatment can be begun the scabs
must be removed by means of carbolized oil, and the head
thoroughly cleansed with soft soap. The cure is then brought
about by the judicious use of parasiticides. If the nails are
affected, avulsion will probably be needed before the disease can
be reached.
FAWCETT, HENRY (1833–1884), English politician and
economist, was born at Salisbury on the 25th of August 1833.
His father, William Fawcett, a native of Kirkby Lonsdale, in
Westmorland, started life as a draper’s assistant at Salisbury,
opened a draper’s shop on his own account in the market-place
there in 1825, married a solicitor’s daughter of the city, became
a prominent local man, took a farm, developed his north-country
sporting instincts, and displayed his shrewdness by successful
speculations in Cornish mining. His second son, Henry, inherited
a full measure of his shrewdness, along with his masculine energy,
his straightforwardness, his perseverance and his fondness for
fishing. The father was active in electioneering matters, and his
wife was an ardent reformer. Henry Fawcett was educated
locally and at King’s College school, London, and proceeded
to Peterhouse, Cambridge, in October 1852, migrating in 1853
to Trinity Hall. He was seventh wrangler in 1856, and was
elected to a fellowship at his college.
He had already attained some prominence as an orator at the Cambridge Union. Before he left school he had formed the ambition of entering parliament, and, being a poor man, he resolved to approach the House of Commons through a career at the bar. He had already entered Lincoln’s Inn. His prospects, however, were shattered by a calamity which befell him in September 1858, when two stray pellets from his father’s fowling-piece passed through the glasses he was wearing and blinded him for life. Within ten minutes after his accident he had made up his mind “to stick to his old pursuits as much as possible.” He kept up all recreations contributing to the enjoyment of life; he fished, rowed, skated, took abundant walking and horse exercise, and learnt to play cards with marked packs. Soon after his accident he established his headquarters at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, entered cordially into the social life of the college, and came to be regarded by many as a typical Cambridge man. He gave up mathematics (for which he had little aptitude), and specialized in political economy. He paid comparatively little attention to economic history, but he was in the main a
