Jules-Gabriel-Claude (Jules) Favre
1809–80
French statesman. Leader of republican opposition to Napoleon III. Secretary-general, Ministry for the Interior, 1848; under-secretary of state. Acting minister for the interior, 1870. Vice president and minister of foreign affairs during the Franco-Prussian war.
Source
DBF.
Bibliography
DBF: Dictionnaire de biographie Française. Under the direction of J. Balteau et al. 21 vols. and 4 fascicules of vol. 22 (A–Leyris d’Esponchès) to date. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané. 1933–.
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