Generally, the name 'Favières' is attributed to a Latin origin, from Faba, bean. So beans were grown here. Brie Boisée, a commune of a thousand inhabitants with two thirds of its surface forested surface, is divided between the village of Favières and the hamlet of the Route-des-Grès. Moreover, there are more than a dozen places called "écarts" with farms and houses, some of them being isolated, others very old. The land of Favières is notable for having been one of the strongholds of the de Rothschild family, which owned most of it. Until 1961, the family of Guy and Edmond de Rothschild owned 2,400 ha of the 2,826 ha of Favières, before they were parcelled out and transferred to the ONF, the Paris district, France Forêts and the King of Morocco. However, there remains, among others, the 30 Arpents farm, founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Baron Edmond de Rothschild with the aim of enhancing the value of the milk from the cows on his farm by producing a product of excellence according to tradition: the local cheese, farmhouse Brie de Meaux. The 30 Arpents farm cheese factory is now the last one to produce a PDO farmhouse Brie de Meaux in the purest respect of the Brie cheese tradition. Favières maintains friendly relations with two other Favières in France, Favières in Eure-et-Loir and Favières in Somme, and proudly claims that Jean Mermoz's grandmother, Stéphanie Laurent, was born and married in Favières. Note the bucolic presence of Marsange and the proximity of the beautiful and large pond of Armainvilliers where the local residents enjoy going for a walk.In the past, the inhabitants of Favières were called the Owls, because the lords of the country bore on their coat of arms the insignia of the owl, a very common bird in the local forests. It is proven that Favières existed as early as the 9th century, since the site is mentioned at that time in the property catalogue of the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, as a parish. Favières was then shared between the lords and the religious. Of the many period castles, none has remained. The one of Mandegris was demolished in 1830, La Planchette in 1847 leaving the farm subsequently demolished in 1940. The destruction of the castle of Saint-Ouen dates from 1926 and the one of the castle of Hermières from 1951
