Place Monseigneur Favier

Known as Mgr Favier, is a French clergyman who was a missionary in China, vicar apostolic of Pékin. Alphonse Favier was born in the Burgundian wine village of Marsannay-la-Côte. He did his literary studies at the school of Plombi, then his philosophy and a year of theory at the great school of Dijon.he entered the Lazarist Order in Paris on October 5, 1858, pronounced his vows on October 6, 1860, and was ordained a priest on October 10, 1861, in the chapel of the Médaille miraculeuse on Rue du Bac, by Bishop Mouly.