FAUSTINA 



3099 



FAVERSHAM 



In Goethe's second part, the phil- 

 osophic aspect forms the exclusive 

 interest, although the symbolism is 

 often very obscure. Faust comes to 

 the conclusion that neither learning 

 nor bodily pleasures can satisfy 

 his soul, but only a life of useful 

 activity, contributing to the bene- 

 ficent works of God and Nature. 

 By this decision his soul is saved 

 from perdition. Goethe has thus 

 transformed the old Faust story, 

 with its stress on the punishment 

 awaiting those who seek human and 

 rational knowledge in preference 

 to theological doctrine, into an ex- 

 pression of the noblest humanism 

 in thought and action. 



Faust has also been the subject 

 of a romance by Friedrich Klinger, 

 1791, of a dramatic poem by 

 Nikolas Lenau, 1836, and used as 

 the basis for operas by Spohr, 1818, 

 Berlioz, 1846, and Gounod, 1859. 

 A tragedy, Faust, by W. G. Wills, 

 based on Goethe's version, was 

 produced successfully by Henry* 



Faust Up to Date. Burlesque 

 written by George R. Sims and 

 Henry Pettit, with music by Meyer 

 Lutz, produced Oct. 30, 1888, at 

 The Gaiety, London, where it ran 

 for 180 performances. 



Fauvette. British mercantile 

 auxiliary. She was sunk by a mine 

 off the E. coast of England, on 

 March 9, 1916, when two officers 

 and 12 men were lost. 



Favara. Town of Sicily, in the 

 prov. of Girgenti. It stands at an 

 alt. of 1,100 ft., 5 m. S.E. of Gir- 

 genti, and 9 m. from the Mediter- 

 ranean. It is the centre of a fruit- 

 producing district, and is noted for 

 its rich sulphur mines ; other pro- 

 ducts are marble, alum, and tour- 

 maline. There is a 14th century cas- 

 tle of the Chiaramonti. Pop. 21,599. 



Favart, CHARLES SIMON (1710- 

 92). French dramatist. Born in 

 Paris, Nov. 13, 1710, he produced 

 his first light opera, Les Deux 

 J umelles, in 1734, with such success 

 that he left his father's bakery 



Faust. The meeting of Faust and Marguerite, from the painting by J. J. J. 

 Tissot, in the Luxembourg, Paris 



the Lvceum, London, business and turned to play writing. 



Irving at the Lyceum, London, 

 Dec. 19, 1885, revived in 1888, 

 1894, and 1902. In Oct., 1920, 

 the original version of Goethe's 

 Faust, found by Friedrich Schmidt 

 of Berlin University in a contem- 

 porary manuscript copy, was pro- 

 duced in Berlin by Max Rein- 

 hardt. Prow. Fowst. /See Goethe ; 

 Mephistopheles. J. E. Miles 



Faustina (d. A.D. 141). Wife of 

 the Roman emperor Antoninus 

 Pius. His daughter of the same 

 name (d. A.D. 175) married Marcus 

 Aurelius, successor of Antoninus. 

 Mother and daughter were noted 

 for their profligacy, yet their mem- 

 ory was held in honour after their 

 death by their husbands, who 

 founded institutions for the edu- 

 cating of orphan girls called after 

 them Faustinianae. 



Under his direction the Opera 

 Comique became the centre of this 

 class of work 

 for many years. 

 A protege of 

 Madame de Pom- 

 padour, he scored 

 other notable suc- 

 cesses with La 

 Chercheuse d'Es- 

 prit, 1741 ; Les 

 Moissoneurs, 

 1747 ; Les Trois 

 Sultanes, 1761. 

 His wife, Marie 

 Justine du Ron- 

 cerai (1727-72), 

 was a celebrated 

 actress, whose 



coldness to the Faversham . The 

 enamoured Mar- 



Faustina, wife of the emperor 

 Antoninus Pius 



From a bust in the Naples Museum 



shal de Saxe, when the Favart 

 company was performing in his 

 camps in Flanders, 1747, brought 

 his wrath on her, and a lettre de 

 cachet on her husband, the execu- 

 tion of which he escaped. Favart 

 die'd in Paris, May 12, 1792. See 

 Favart, L' Opera Comique, et la 

 Comedie-Vaudeville aux 17e et 18e 

 Siecles, A. Font, 1894. 



Faversham. Mun. bor. and 

 market town of Kent, England. It 

 stands on a branch of the Swale, 

 called Faver- 

 sham Creek, and 

 is 9J m. N.W. of 

 Canterbury, o n 

 the S.E. & C.R 

 An ancient town, 

 in 1147 Stephen 

 and Matilda 

 founded here a 

 Cluniac abbey, 

 of which traces still exist. In it 

 the royal pair and their son Eus- 

 tace were buried. The cruciform 

 church of S. Mary of Charity, in 

 the Early English style, restored 

 by Sir G. G. Scott in 1874, con- 

 tains some superb brasses. 



Faversham has a trade in fruit, 



Faversham arms 



parish church of S. Mary of Charity, 

 restored in 1874 



