author
Augustin Fabre
d. 1951
A French abbé and biographer, he is best remembered for writing a full-length life of the naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre. His work helped bring that celebrated entomologist’s story to a wider reading public.
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The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910
by Augustin Fabre
About the author
Augustin Fabre was a French writer and clergyman, identified in library and book records as Abbé Augustin Fabre. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists him as having died in 1951, and surviving catalog records connect him with religious and literary work in French.
He is most closely associated today with The Life of Jean Henri Fabre, the Entomologist, 1823–1910, a biography of the famed naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre. English-language editions and library catalogs credit the book to Abbé Augustin Fabre, showing that his account traveled beyond France and found an international readership.
Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce in the sources available here, so much remains unclear. What can be said with confidence is that he belongs to the group of early 20th-century French clerical writers whose lasting legacy rests on preserving the lives and achievements of others in book form.