Louis Favre (other)
Louis Favre may refer to: * Louis Favre (engineer) (1826–1879), Swiss engineer * Louis Favre (painter) (1892–1956), French painter, print maker, writer and inventor * Louis Favre (French footballer) (1923–2008), French football player and manager * Louis Favre (Switzerland footballer) Louis Favre was a Swiss footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played as defender. Favre played the 1935–36 Nationalliga season with Young Boys. Favre joined Basel's first team in advance of their 1936–37 season. He played his ...

Louis Favre (engineer)
Louis Favre (26 January 1826 – 19 July 1879) was a Swiss engineer who is remembered for building the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his death in the tunnel in 1879. Biography He was born the son of a carpenter at Chêne, a small village some 3 kilometers from Geneva. At eighteen, he left to tour France and developed a career undertaking the design and direction of civil engineering works. He was not well schooled, but studied the principal bases of such sciences as were to be useful to him, and took evening classes to make up for what was lacking in his early instruction; not that he hoped to make a complete study for an engineer, but only to learn the indispensable. He was, according to a colleague "before all things, a practical man, who made up for the enforced insufficiency of his technical knowledge by a coup d'œil (glance) of surprising accuracy". In 1872 he was invited to build a tunnel through the Gotthard massif, connecting the Canton of Ticino (South) with t ...
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Louis Favre (painter)
Louis Favre (15 September 1892 – 17 April 1956) was a French painter, print maker, writer and inventor who spent most of his life in France and the Netherlands. He is known internationally for his labor-intensive technique. His works achieved great popularity, particularly in the Netherlands. Biography Favre was born in Annemasse (Haute Savoie) in Maison Grillet on the Place d'Eglise. He moved to Paris in 1912. He started as an industrial designer, but soon devoted himself entirely to painting. He had no formal training and was completely self-taught. As a soldier during World War I, he often stood in the trenches, which gave him chronic bronchitis. Back in Paris in 1919, he met Gertrude Stein. She bought several of his paintings. His connection with her increased his popularity in the United States. Favre later met the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, whose friendship significantly impacted his artistic development. In 1924 he worked with an American friend in Vence, near Nice ...
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Louis Favre (French Footballer)
Louis Favre (23 October 1923 – 15 January 2008) was a French football player and later manager. ''Youye'' played as a striker, then as a winger, then as a central midfielder. Playing career Born in Montpellier, Louis Favre made his professional debut in 1941 with the club that trained him: SO Montpellier. He left for Béziers in 1945 and played an unofficial international game (against an army and air force selection) for France under 23s in January 1946 during which he came to the attention of scouts from Red Star. He joined Saint-Ouen in summer 1946. A France B international, he was selected to play in two international games against Scotland and the Netherlands in April 1949, with the A team. One week before the game, Favre was injured during the derby against Racing club de Paris: a fractured fibula and double sprain. He was never picked again for France A. The following season, he fractured his fibula again. After seven seasons in the capital, he returned to the Langu ...
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