Fabre was preceded to the tomb by several months by Mistral, who was seven years his junior. “Very different in an equal fame, these two men are inseparable. Mistral and Fabre both represented Provence; one was born there and never left it, and to some extent created it; the other adopted and was adopted by it, and, like his illustrious compatriot, covered it with glory.” [211] But while Fabre represented Provence, which saw the unfolding of his rich and vital nature, and while it lavished upon him all the beauty of its sky, all the brilliance of its Latin soul, all the savour of its musical and picturesque language, and all the entomological wealth of its sunny hills, he none the less represents the Rouergue, whence he derived his innate qualities and his earliest habits, his love of nature and the insects, his thirst for God and the Beyond, his indefatigable love of work, his tenacious enthusiasm for study, his irresistible craving for solitude, the strange, powerful, striking and picturesque grace of his language, his almost rustic simplicity, his blunt frankness, his proud timidity, his no less proud independence, and with all these the ingenuous and unusual sensitiveness and sincere modesty of his character. THE END NOTES [1] The higher clerical seminary.—B. M. [2] The great entomologist’s jubilee was celebrated on the April 3, 1910.—Author’s Note. [3] Paris, Delagrave. The Souvenirs, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, are in course of publication by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton in England and Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Co. in the United States. The arrangement of the essays has been altered in the English series. See also The Life and Love of the Insect, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (A. and C. Black), Social Life in the Insect World, translated by Bernard Miall (T. Fisher Unwin), and Wonders of Instinct, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Bernard Miall (T. Fisher Unwin).—B. M. [4] It must in justice be admitted that Fabre had certain precursors, among whom mention must be made of the famous Réaumur and Léon Dufour, a physician who lived in the Landes (died 1865), and who was the occasion and the subject of his first entomological publication. This does not alter the fact that his great work is not only absolutely original, but an achievement sui generis which cannot be compared with the mere sketches of his predecessors. [5] Souvenirs, Series VI., p. 65, The Life of the Fly, chap. vi., “My Schooling.” This is Fabre’s verdict upon another naturalist, Moquin-Tandon. [6] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 76–97; The Glow-worm and Other Beetles, chap, ix., “Dung-beetles of the Pampas.” [7] M. E. Perrier is a Member of the Institut de France. [8] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 76, 97; The Glow-worm, chap. ix.