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- Marc Favreau was born on November 9, 1929 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Témoignages (1973), J'ai pas dit mon dernier mot (1986) and Bye-Bye (1968). He died on December 17, 2005 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- He was best known to many Canadians as the French language clown hobo Sol.
- He became a set designer soon after World War 2, and created Sol soon after.
- He was inspired by Charles Chaplin.
- He was appointed Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1995 and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.
- As Sol, his clown character, he made a series of funny educational videos to teach French to English-speaking elementary school children. These videos had skits showing Sol doing various activities of everyday life (e.g. going to the dentist, taking art and music lessons, etc.), and the videos also had a series of vocabulary words for each skit.
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