Marc Favreau (Sol), Template:Post-nominals (born November 9, 1929 in Montreal, Quebec and died December 17, 2005 same city) was a Canadian (Québécois) television and film actor and poet.Favreau began his television career as a regular on La Boîte à surprise, a long running children's television show on Radio-Canada. At that time, he was teamed with another clown in an act called Bim et Sol. Favreau developed Sol's monologues into an enormously popular one-man show. Favreau then teamed up with another clown for Sol et Bouton. Finally, Favreau created, with Luc Durand a popular television series called Sol et Gobelet.Later, he played numerous roles on stage and on several television series on Canadian television, such as Parlez-moi, an instructional program on the French language on TVOntario in the late 1970s. Many English Canadian children got their first exposure to Quebec French through Favreau's work. He is best remembered for the witty deconstructions of the French language which he invented for Sol.
Portrayed Sol the lovable french speaking hobo on the TVOntario series Parlez Moi.
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He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on May 8, 2003 for his services to Canadian-French entertainment.
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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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He was appointed Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1995 and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.
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