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Georges Favon , born the February 2nd 1843 with Plainpalais (Geneva) and dead the May 17th 1902 with Plainpalais, is a politician Suisse member of the radical-democratic Parti.

Biography

Resulting from a preserving medium, Favon passes its traditional Baccalauréat to the Académie of Geneva then follows courses of Droit to Heidelberg. After having militated in a preserving political association, it rejoins the radical camp towards 1872. In 1875, it founds Small the Genevese (become the Genevese in 1877), body of popular radicalism and preserved until its death the property and the drafting of the Journal. Elected official appointed with the the Great Council in 1876, to advise in the States then to advise national as of 1881, it reaches the Council of State and deals with the department of the state education starting from 1899.

Within Genevese radicalism, Favon supports the policy anticlerical of Antoine Carteret then moves away and directs its party from there towards the social action by preaching alliance with the socialist and by courting the catholic electorate . In 1889, it is found with the head of a divided and minority party which it brings back to the capacity in 1897 while being combined for the Socialists. Favon is also announced by its opposition épicurienne to the Piétisme reformed. In the federal plan, he recommends measurements etatists often pushed back in Votation: he thus proposes without success the health insurance generalized and the obligatory Syndicat S. To the cantonal plan, he is opposed in vain to the introduction of the representation proportional or the vote to the common . He is on the other hand one of the craftsmen of the school law of 1886 which modernizes the Genevese state education. With the government, it develops the university by the enlarging of the buildings or the extension of the teaching of the Social sciences.

Died in functions, Favon leaves an assessment marked by success in the school and university field but also the failure of social projects for which the opinion was not ripe. Its name is given later to large a Boulevard of Geneva and its Buste installed in small a close public garden.

Freemason, Favon occupies the station of “Worthy” of the cabin Fidélité and Prudence of 1893 with 1895.

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