first, I must confess that I was in error when I read the first
name of the geometer J.Favard as "Jaques" - it was "Jean" as can
be found e.g. in the obituary by Marc Zamansky mentioned by Sr.
Cabillon, or in the membership lists of the Societ/e
Math/ematique de France as given in the Bulletin de la S.M.de
France since the year 1948. I have no explanation how I came to
read his initial "J." as abbreviating Jaques.
Second, Mme Beaulieu's Jean Favard is apparently the above.
Because in the membership list of the year 1926 J.Favard's
address is given as the Mathematical Institute at Copenhagen
where, according to Zamanski, he worked with Harald Bohr and
completed his Th\ese, and for the year 1927 his address is given
as the Mathematical Seminar at Hamburg, where we may assume that
he was in contact with Blaschke.
Until 1938 the membership lists give only the initial "J." for
his first name, the title of his book gives the same and its
preface is signed by "J.F." .
The name on and in the Russian translation of Favard's book is
[7]. [21]ABAP
where [7] is the 7th Russian letter (pron."sh") and [21] is the
21st Russian letter (pron."ef"). So the closing "d" in Favard's
name has not been transliterated as it is not pronounced in the
French word. Retranslating from Russian into Spanish, where
Sr.Lins found it, an incorrect "t" was introduced instead of a
correct "d".
Preparing us for the upcoming feast of Trinitatis, all three of
the names
Jean Favard
Jean Favart
Jaques Favard ,
discussed in this connection, refer to the same man.
W.F.