Guillaume Favre ( 1770 – 14 February 1851) was a Swiss

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, bibliophile and politician from the city of

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. He was the son of the Swiss merchant François Favre (1736-1814) and Marguerite Favre-Fuzier-Cayla. He was born in

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, and returned with the family in 1792 to Geneva. Since 1800 François Favre owned the domaine of '' La Grange'' in ''Eaux-Vives'' near Geneva. Guillaume Favre studied in Marseille, Geneva and

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archaeology and mineralogy. He created a rich geological collection and the famous

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in the villa ''La Grange''. He published some books on historical and philological themes. He was a member of the board of Geneva's city library and the founder of several associations, as the ''Société de lecture'' of Geneva and the ''Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Genève''. He supported the research of the French linguist

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and of the German biblical scholar

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. In 1811 Guillaume Favre married Catherine Bertrand (1783–1841). They had three children, Alphonse, geologist, Edmond (1812-1880) and Emilie (1824-1889). A

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of Guillaume Favre is part of the Geneva '' Musée d'Art et d'Histoire'' collection.Deonna, Waldemar: ''Le legs Guillaume Favre au Musée d’art et d’histoire.'' Geneva 1943.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Favre, Guillaume 1770 births 1851 deaths Politicians from Geneva 19th-century Swiss politicians