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Jean-Louis Favier (1711 – 1784) was a French diplomat and publicist. His
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s are an important source for Russian history under Empress
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Life

Favier was born in
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, France. Up to the age of thirty he spent traveling. In 1749, he arrived in
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with the Marquis de La Chetardie, French
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to
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, the
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. He undertook secret missions for
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in Spain and Russia. Then he traveled to England, Holland,
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, and returned to Paris. Because of his friendship with Prince Henry of Prussia, in 1773 he was captured in Hamburg and imprisoned in the
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. He wrote multiple essays on history and politics. He died in
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Works

*«Essai historique et politique sur le gouvernement présent de la Hollande» (1748), * «Mémoires secrets de Bolingbroke» (1754). *«Doutes et questions sur le traité de Versailles entre le roi de France et la reine de Hongrie» (1778), *''Conjectures raisonnées sur la situation actuelle de la France dans le système politique de l'Europe'', published in 1793 under the title of ''Politique de tous les cabinets de l'Europe pendant les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI'', which explains his doctrine, based on the alliance with
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Favier, Jean-Louis 1711 births 1784 deaths 18th-century French diplomats 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers 18th-century French memoirists