Favre traveled from Geneva to South America as assistant to the Swiss anthropologist Jean Christian Spahni.
In Santiago, Favre met celebrated Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra and fell in love.
As the Trio Domínguez-Favre-Cavour gained media attention and became increasingly popular for their "neofolklore", Favre decided not to move back to Chile and left Parra for good; she would later write "Run Run Se Fue Pa'l Norte,"[2] dedicated to her lover.
[3] Favre met his first wife Indiana in Bolivia; they settled in the Dordogne area of France and had two sons, Patrick and Christian.
The couple later divorced and while in Paris, Favre met his second wife Barbara Erskine, then working for the New York Times.