[95] Souvenirs, VII., pp. 270–273. The Life of the Fly, chap. vii., “The Pond.” [96] Ibid., VII., 260–270. [97] Souvenirs, VIII., 278–280, 255–295. The Life of the Fly, chap. v., “The Greenbottles”; The Mason-wasps, chap. ix., “Insect Geometry”; The Life of the Fly, chap. ix., “The Grey Flesh-Flies.” [98] Souvenirs, VIII., p. 228. The Life of the Fly, chap. ix., “The Greenbottles.” [99] Mont Ventoux, an outlying summit of the Alps, 6270 feet high. Cf. Insect Life, chap. xiii.—A. T. de M. [100] Fabre lived the first years of his life (cf. chap. i.) on the mountains of Lavaysse, which are almost of the birth and bifurcation of the two ranges of the Levezon and the Palanger. In the language of his country La Vaysse, pronounced Lo Baïsso, means “the hazel-bush.” An alien zoology too is represented in the osier-beds of the Aygues, whose peace is never disturbed save in freshets of exceptional duration. The wild spates of the Aygues bring into our countryside and strand in the osier-thickets the largest of our Snails, the glory of Burgundy, Helix pramatias. [101] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 26–37, 42. The Life of the Fly, chap. v., “Heredity.” [102] A district of the province of Guienne, having Rodez for its capital. The author’s maternal grandfather, Salgues by name, was the huissier, or, as we should say, sheriff’s officer, of Saint-Léons.—A. T. de M. [103] The author’s father kept a café at Pierrelatte and other small towns in the south of France.—A. T. de M. [104] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 26–37, 42. The Life of the Fly, chap. v., “Heredity.” [105] Fabre had a sort of natural horror of luxury. [106] Souvenirs, I., pp. 134–136. The Hunting Wasps, chap. viii., “The Languedocian Sphex.” [107] Souvenirs, p. 319, viii., p. 1. [108] Ibid., p. 294. [109] Souvenirs, VI., p. 295. [110] Souvenirs, II., pp. 80, 81, 90, 91. The Mason Wasps, chap. ii., “The Odyneri.” [111] Souvenirs, I., p. 115. The Hunting Wasps, chap. vi., “The Larva and the Nymph.” [112] The 14th of July, the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille.—A. T. de M. [113] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 196–203, 246–247. The Life of the Grasshopper, chap. xiv., “The Green Grasshopper.” [114] Souvenirs, IX., pp. 94–97, 231, 299–310. The Life and Love of the Insect, chaps. xvii., xviii. [115] Souvenirs, IX., pp. 300–301. The Life and Love of the Insect, chap. xvii. [116] Souvenirs, IX., pp. 302–312. The Life and Love of the Insect, chap. xxii. [117] Souvenirs, VI., pp. 377–378. The Life of the Caterpillar, chap. v., “The Moth.” [118] Souvenirs, III., p. 14. [119] 26th March 1910. [120] E. Perrier, Revue hebdomadaire, October 22, 1910. [121] E. Perrier, loc cit. [122] Souvenirs, I., pp. 304–306, 320; II., pp. 112, 130, 131; III., p. 16; IV., pp. 142, 167, 183; VI., p. 15; VIII., p. 159. [123] Souvenirs, IV., pp. 167–168, 182–183. The Mason Wasps, chap. viii., “The Nest-building Odynerus.” [124] Ibid., VI., pp. 4, 118–119, 249, 383; VIII., p. 295; X., pp. 15, 86, 112, etc.