FABRE, JEAN HENRI

zhäN äNrēˈ fäˈbrə, 1823–1915, French entomologist and author. He is known for his observations on insects and his study of their behavior. Fabre demonstrated the importance of instinct among insects. He taught until 1870 at Carpentras, Ajaccio, and Avignon, wrote works on popular science at Orange (1870–79), then retired to nearby Sérignan, where he devoted himself to entomological studies. Fabre worked almost exclusively from nature, and his exquisite literary style brought him as much renown as his observations. His principal work is Souvenirs entomologiques (10 vol., 1879–1907); English translations of selections from this work include The Life of the Spider (1912), The Marvels of the Insect World (1938), and The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (ed. with commentary and biographical notes by E. W. Teale, 1949).

See studies on Fabre by Augustin Fabre (tr., 2d ed. 1921), P. F. Bicknell (1923), and G. V. Legros (1971).

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The Several Lives of Chester Himes
Book by Edward Margolies, Michel Fabre; University Press of Mississippi, 1997
Subjects: African American Novelists--20th Century--Biography, African American Prisoners--Biography, African Americans--Europe--Biography, Himes, Chester B.--1909-
...121, 137, 142, 149, 170 Henri Christophe, 158 Herald Tribune...Europe, 77- 79 ; divorce from Jean, 172; education, 14, 15...40, 42, 139; marriage to Jean, 41, 60; marriage to Lesley...38 , 39 ; separation from Jean, 74-75; strokes, 129...
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Richard Wright: Books and Writers
Book by Michel Fabre; University Press of Mississippi, 1990
Subjects: Private libraries--United States--Catalogs, Wright, Richard--1908-1960--Books and reading, Wright, Richard--1908-1960--Library--Catalogs
...207-8. In 1938, Wright saw the play Of Mice and Men with Jean Blackwell and enjoyed the anxiety in it. He visited in Mexico...Teslaar. 2 vols. London: Vision Press, 1953. STENDHAL Marie Henri Beyle . The Charterhouse of Parma;
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The World of Richard Wright
Book by Michel Fabre; University Press of Mississippi, 1985
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, Wright, Richard--1908-1960--Criticism And Interpretation
...Bovary. Among more contemporary writers, Wright mentioned Henri Barbusse in "Blueprint for Negro Writing" 1937 , probably...disillusionment with the Soviet Union until much later. Romain Rolland Jean Christophe may have been suggested to him by Communist friends...
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Catherine de Medici: Five Portraits
Book by Michael G. Paulson; Peter Lang, 2002
Subjects: Catherine De Maedicis--Queen, Consort Of Henry Ii, King Of France--1519-1589--In Literature, Dumas, Alexandre--1802-1870--Henri Iii Et Sa Cour, French Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism
...1670-1703 .Bern: Peter Lang, 1999. Delacomptee, Jean-Michel. `La Princesse de Cleves: la mere et le courtisan...Roger. Madame de La Fayette . Paris: Fayard, 1988. Fabre, Jean. LArt de lanalyse dans `La Princesse de Cleves . Strasbourg...
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The Abacus and the Rainbow: Bergson, Proust, and the Digital-Analogic Opposition
Book by Donald R. Maxwell; Peter Lang, 1999
Subjects: Bergson, Henri--1859-1941--Influence, Philosophy In Literature--History--20th Century, Proust, Marcel--1871-1922--A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
...Proust 6 Leon Pierre-Quint 7 Francoise Fabre-Luce de Gruson 9 Joyce Megay 10 Anthony...Mechanistic 19 Bergson and lEcole Normale 21 Jean-Gaspard-Felix Ravaisson 22 Jules Lachelier 23 Emile Boutroux 24 Claude Bernard and Henri Poincare 25 Notes 28 2. The Digital and...
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Air, Necessary to Life
Journal article by Jean-Henri Fabre; Chicago Review, Vol. 51, 2005
Subjects: Air, Atmosphere, Ecology, Life sciences, Middleton, Christopher, Needs
Air, Necessary to Life by Jean-Henri Fabre THE MOST IMPERIOUS OF NEEDS Most imperious among the needs which rule over us are those of food, drink, and sleep. So long as...
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Unraveling the Ethnographic Encounter: Institutionalization and Scientific Tourism in the Oeuvre of Jean Rouch
Journal article by Peter J. Bloom; French Forum, Vol. 35, 2010
Subjects: Documentary filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary filmmakers--Works, Ethnographic movies--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Works, French movies--Criticism and interpretation, French movies--Social aspects, Motion pictures, French--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures, French--Social aspects, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works, Rouch, Jean--Criticism and interpretation, Rouch, Jean--Works
...the French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915). Notably...Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of...Ibid. See also Marc-Henri Piault, "Preface. Regards...regards partages," in Jean Rouch, Les Hommes et les...
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Richard Wright, Community, and the French Connection
Journal article by Eugene E. Miller; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41, 1995
Subjects: Barbusse, Henri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Block, Jean Richard--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Analysis, Wright, Richard (Author)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Reynolds (summarized in Fabre 427-28 and Miller 218...know, again thanks to Fabre, that Wright read Under...WORKS CITED Barbusse, Henri. The Inferno. Trans...Houghton, 1971. Bloch, Jean-Richard. "- Co...York: Scribners, 1920. Fabre, Michel. The Unfinished...
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Oublies Par la NRF ? Marginalite Du Modernisme Noir
Journal article by Michel Fabre; The Romanic Review, Vol. 99, 2008
Subjects: Authors, Black--Research, Black literature--History, Black writers--Research, Literary magazines--History, Literary newspapers and periodicals--History, Periodical publishing--History, Racial attitudes--Research, Revue Nouvelle Francaise (Periodical)--History, Social science research
...Modernisme Noir. by Michel Fabre Retrouver les courants...principalement par Jean Paulhan, et durant...y compris ce que Jean Schlumberger appelait...Jacques Audiberti, Henri Michaux, Maurice...Pourtant Olga et Jean Roux-Delimal publierent...positive de Charles-Henri Hirsch dans Le Mercure...
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Notice Board
Journal article; Sartre Studies International, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Literary associations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Literary associations--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Literary societies--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Literary societies--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Philosophers--Appreciation, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Appreciation
...relationships that Jean-Paul Sartre maintained...Raymond Abellio, Henri Guillemin, etc...2005), Bernard-Henri Levy states that the...negative report by Jean-Yves Guerin on doctoral...now an avenue called Jean-Paul Sartre in La...Sandrine Sgherri, Henri-IV, le lycee des...
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magazine articles on: Fabre Jean Henri  - 5 results

 
 
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A Devil's Chaplain
Magazine article by Richard Dawkins; Skeptic, Vol. 10, 2003
Subjects: Evolution, Politics, Science, Theory
...with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Darwins French contemporary Jean Henri Fabre described similar behavior in a digger wasp, Ammophila: It is the general rule that larvae possess a center of innervation...
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Who Designed That?
Magazine article by Tom McIver; Skeptic, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Bible, Christianity, Creationism, Intelligent design, Religion, Theology
...but when occasions called for such expressions of the divine displeasure."15 The brilliant amateur entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre, a contemporary of Darwin who never accepted evolution, described ichneumon behavior in exquisite detail.16 After...
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Romance and Rebellion: The Most Expressive and Wild-Tempered Artist of His Generation, Girodet Was Commissioned by Some of the Biggest Names in France, and Gave Free Rein to His Imagination in Executing an Impressive Array of Brilliant Paintings
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, January 2007
Subjects: Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Rebellion--Portrayals, Romantic love--Portrayals, Roussy, Anne-Louis Girodet De--Works
...denounced by his fellow student Fabre for having brought some drawings...Francois-Rene Chateaubriand, Jean-Baptiste Belley, Jacques...being challenged by Jacques-Henri Bemardin de Saint-Pierre...1798) and for the tragedies of Jean Racine, Phaedra, and Andromache...
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Euro-Stars in Their Own Firmament
Magazine article by Ben Schiller, Daniel Bilefsky; New Statesman, Vol. 127, January 2, 1998
Subjects: Celebrities--Europe, Europe--Personalities
...as the film director Jean-Luc Godard and the minister...esteem," he says. Jan Fabre, artist Long before Damien...sheep and goats, Jan Fabre was using insects and...breakfast. FRANCE Bernard-Henri Levy, public intellectual...appointed successor to Jean-Paul Sartre. As famed...
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Making Music in Occupied Paris
Magazine article by Nigel Simeone; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Spring 2006
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Nazi era, Paris France, Social history
...publisher, and Alfred Fabre-Luce. (For such...them in. The pianist Henri Fevrier9 plays for...sense of timing, Jean Cocteau ... bobs...Animaux modeles.23 Jean de La Fontaine was...with engravings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry was...given its premiere, Henri Sauguet composed a...


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newspaper articles on: Fabre Jean Henri  - 5 results

 
 
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Time We Give to Moving Around
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 26, 2010
Subjects: Hiss, Tony
...to find David Livingstone, the Russian Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a pioneer of color photography, Jean-Henri Fabre, considered the father of the entomology and Kary B. Mullis, the Nobel Prize winner who was driving his Honda...
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Exhibition
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 26, 2005
...tells us that the mole is a homage to the pointless experiments of a French Les Necrophores - LEnterrement (Homage a Jean-Henri Fabre), 2002 entomologist on the behaviour of beetles on dead moles, and that the Ichthyosaur is about intellectual...
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When Flying Took Wing ... ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 2, 2011
...the first race ever to be called a Grand Prix. 7. Jean Gobron (1885-1945), son of the president of the...Le Canard, the worlds first seaplane, designed by Henri Fabre. 11. Henri Rougier (1876-1956), best remembered for his victory...
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When Flying Took Wing
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 2, 2011
...the first race ever to be called a Grand Prix. 7. Jean Gobron (1885-1945), son of the president of the...Le Canard, the worlds first seaplane, designed by Henri Fabre. 11. Henri Rougier (1876-1956), best remembered for his victory...
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Flying Founders' Club; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 2, 2011
...the first race ever to be called a Grand Prix. 7. Jean Gobron (1885-1945), son of the president of the...the worlds first seaplane, which was designed by henri Fabre. 11. Henri Rougier (1876-1956), best remembered for his victory...


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Fabre, Jean Henri
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FABRE, JEAN HENRI zhaN aNre fa br , 1823 1915, French entomologist...insects and his study of their behavior. Fabre demonstrated the importance of instinct...1938), and The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (ed. with commentary and biographical...


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