See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

FERDINAND See also:

• FABRE
• FERDINAND FABRE (183o—1898)

FABRE (183o—1898)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bedarieux, in See also:

• HERAULT

Herault, a very picturesque See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, which he made completely his own in literature . He was the son of a See also:

• LOCAL

local architect, who failed in business, and See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand was brought up by his See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

Abbe Fulcran See also:

• FABRE
• FABRE, FERDINAND (183o—1898)

Fabre, at Camplong among the mulberry See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods . Of his childhood and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early youth he has given a charming See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in Ma Vocation (1889) . He was destined to the priesthood, and was sent for that purpose to the See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary of St Pons de Thomieres, where, in 1848, he had, as he believed, an ecstatic See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

vision of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ, who warned him " It is not the will of See also:

• GOD

God that See also:

• THOU, JACQUES AUGUSTE DE [THUANUS] (1553-1617)
• THOU, NOM

thou shouldst be a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest." He had now to look about for a profession, and, after attempting See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier, was articled as a lawyer's clerk in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . In 1853 he published a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of verses, Feuilles de See also:

• LIERRE (Flemish, Lier)

lierre, See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke down in See also:

• HEALTH

health, and crept back, humble and apparently without ambition, to his old See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home at Bedarieux . After some eight or nine years of See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• LIFE

life he reappeared in Paris, with the MS. of his earliest novel, See also:

• LES

Les Courbezon (1862), in which he treated the subject which was to recur in almost all his books, the daily business of country priests in the See also:

• CEVENNES (Lat. Cebenna or Gebenna)

Cevennes . This See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story enjoyed an immediate success with the See also:

• LITERARY

literary class of readers; See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

Sand praised it, Sainte-Beuve hailed in its author " the strongest of the disciples of See also:

• BALZAC, HONORS DE (1790-1850)
• BALZAC, JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE (1594-1654)

Balzac," and it was crowned by the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . From this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time forth Fabre settled down to the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of novels, of which at the time of his See also:

• DEATH

death he had published about twenty . Among these the most important were Le Cheerier (1868), unique among his See also:

• WORKS

works as written in an experimental mixture of Cevenol See also:

• PATOIS

patois and French of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; L'Abbe Tigrane, candidat a la papaute (1873), by See also:

• COMMON

common consent the best of See also:

• ALI

alI Fabre's novels, a very powerful picture of unscrupulous priestly ambition; Mon Oncle See also:

• CELESTIAL, OR STELLAR

Celestial . (1881), a study of the entirely single and See also:

• TENDER

tender-hearted country abbe; and See also:

• LUCIFER (d. 370/1)
• LUCIFER (the Latinized form of Gr. 4scwo'4 bpos, " light-bearer ")

Lucifer (1884), a marvellous See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery of serious clerical portraits . In 1883 Fabre was appointed See also:

• CURATOR (Lat. for " one who takes care," curare, to take care of)

curator of the See also:

• MAZARIN, JULES (1602-1661)

Mazarin Library, with rooms in the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, where, on 11th See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1898, he died after a brief attack of See also:

• PNEUMONIA (Gr. ?rveu AMP, lung)

pneumonia . Ferdinand Fabre occupies in French literature a position somewhat analogous to that of Mr See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Harder amongst See also:

• ENGLISH

English writers of fiction .

He deals almost exclusively with the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain villages of Herault, and particularly with its priests . He loved most of all to treat of the celibate virtues, the strictly ecclesiastical passions, the enduring tension of the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young soul See also:

• DRAWN

drawn between the spiritual vocation and the See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical demands of nature . Although never a priest, he preserved a comprehension of and a sympathy with the clerical See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, and he always indignantly denied that he was hostile to the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, although he stood just outside her See also:

• BORDERS, THE

borders . Fabre possessed a limited and a monotonous See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent, but within his own See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field he was as See also:

• ORIGINAL

original as he was wholesome and charming . See also J . See also:

• LEMAITRE, FRANCOIS ELIE JULES (1853— )

Lemaitre, Les Contemporains, vol . H.; G . Pellissier, Etudes de litterature contemporaine (1898) ; E . W . See also:

• GOSSE, EDMUND (1849– )
• GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (1810–r888)

Gosse, French Profiles (1905) . (E .