Ferdinand Fabre

Ferdinand Fabre (Bédarieux, 1827 - Paris, 1898) was a writer and Romancier, interfering much vocabulary occitan with the French language in its works.

Ferdinand Fabre was born in the high valley from the Orb, in the department of the Herault. This area will be one of its sources of inspiration for its novels. Pushed by his mother, it enters to the small seminar of Saint-Pons-with-Thomières, and, in 1847, with the great seminar of Montpellier. His/her uncle, priest of Camplong, will be evoked in his books. The description of its experiment of the ecclesiastical mediums will more generally provide another topic of its novels.

In 1849, it gives up the priesthood and comes to Paris to study. In 1853, it obtains a post of inspector of the libraries with Calais. Finally it leaves the administration and is devoted entirely to the letters. It comes to live with Paris and frequent the artistic mediums, in particular Hector Malot and the painter Jean-Paul Laurens, of which it will write a biography. He dies five days before his election, held for policy-holder, with the French Academy.

Works

Courbezon (1861), work distinguished by the French Academy.
Chevrier (1868)
the Abbot Tigrane (1873)
the novel of a painter (1878), Biography of Jean-Paul Laurens
My Uncle Célestin (1881), Lunas and St Fulcran de Lodève.
Lucifer (1884)
All Saints' day Galabru (1887)
My Vocation (1889), Stay of the author to the seminar of Montpellier
Norine (1889)
Germy (1890)
Xavière (1890)
My Youth (1903), Stay of the author to the seminar of Montpellier
Julien Savignac
Taillevent
Miss de Malavieille
Hospital the
the King Ramire
Barnabe
Mrs Fuster
Illumuné
the abbot Kinglet
the Marquis de Pierrerue

Monument

Bust of Ferdinand Fabre in the Garden of Luxembourg (1880), work of the Sculptor Laurent Honore Marqueste. The bust of Ferdinand Fabre is accompanied by a shepherdess and a goat.

Bust of Ferdinand Fabre, in Bédarieux (Herault) its birthplace. Work of the sculptor Jacques Villeneuve (1863 - 1933). A shepherd greets the writer surrounded by a dog and a goat.

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