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Augustin Fabre

d. 1951

A French Catholic writer and biographer remembered for a life of the great naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre, he also wrote on regional history and religious subjects. His work has a scholarly feel but stays close to people, places, and lived experience.

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The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

by Augustin Fabre

About the author

Augustin Fabre was a French author who died in 1951. Library records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France list him simply as "Augustin Fabre (18..-1951)," so his exact birth year is not clearly confirmed from the sources I found.

He is best known in English for The Life of Jean Henri Fabre, the Entomologist, 1823-1910, published in translation in 1921. Project Gutenberg identifies the original author as Augustin Fabre, and the opening pages present him as Abbé Augustin Fabre, suggesting a Catholic clerical background.

BnF records also show a wider body of work, including Le roquefort de Pline l'Ancien and edited volumes on priests of Aveyron deported during the French Revolution. Taken together, those titles suggest an author deeply interested in history, religion, and the culture of southern France.