NOTES TO CHAPTER 1.
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"It is a country that has very little charm." To his brother, 18th August, 1846.
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"Practicien, homme d'affaires ou de chicane": roughly, "practitioner, man of business or law": so his father is described in his birth certificate.
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"Souvenirs entomologiques," 2nd series, chapter 4, and 7th series, chapter 19.
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Id., 8th series, chapter 8.
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To his brother, 15th August, 1896.
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Id. "As brothers, we are one only; but in virtue of our different tastes we are two, and I am amused and interested where you might well be bored."
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Frédéric Fabre, like his brother, an ex-scholar of the normal primary school of Vaucluse, was first of all teacher at Lapalud (Vaucluse), then professor in the communal college of Orange. He was director of the primary school attached to the normal school of Avignon, where he voluntarily retired from teaching in 1859. He then became, successively, secretary to the Chamber of Commerce of Avignon, director of the Vaucluse Docks, and finally director of the Crillon Canal, which position he still occupies (December, 1912).<-p>
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"Souvenirs entomologiques," 10th series, chapter 9.
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Among his innumerable manuscripts I have found a vast number of little poems, which date from this period.