Marie Justine Benoite Favart, a French actress, born in Avignon in 1727, died in 1772. She was a (laughter of M. du Ronceray, a mu-sician, and first appeared as a vocalist at the Opera Comique, Paris, in 1744, under the name of Mlle, de Chantilly. Next year she married the dramatist and inventor of the vaudeville, Charles Simon Favart, who, by following soon after the camp of Marshal Saxe with a dramatic troupe, subjected himself and his wife to severe persecutions on account of her rejecting the marshal's addresses. After the marshal's death in 1750 she resumed acting in Paris, chiefly in her husband's plays. She excelled equally as actress, singer, and dancer, and introduced many excellent innovations in: costume and other accessories. The plays of her husband, who survived her 20 years, fill 10 volumes, and some of her own are included in (Euvres choisies de M. et Mme. Favart (Paris, 1860).-Their son. Chaeles Nicolas Joseph Justin (1749-1800), became also an actor and playwright.