author
Georges Victor Legros
1862–1940
A French doctor, politician, and writer, he is best remembered in literary circles for his life of the naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre. His work helped introduce Fabre's patient, close-up view of the insect world to a wider public.
1 Audiobook
Fabre, Poet of Science
by Georges Victor Legros
About the author
Born in Aubusson, France, in May 1861, Georges-Victor Legros trained as a physician and later practiced medicine in Montrichard. Alongside his medical career, he also entered public life and served for many years in the French National Assembly.
For readers, Legros is most notable as the author of La Vie de J.-H. Fabre, naturaliste, a biography of Jean-Henri Fabre that was translated into English as Fabre, Poet of Science. The book presents Fabre not just as a scientist, but as a vivid, deeply curious observer of the natural world, and it remains the work most closely associated with Legros's name.
He died in Montrichard in September 1940. Though he was active in both medicine and politics, his lasting place in an audiobook library comes from that accessible, appreciative portrait of one of France's great naturalists.