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See also:FABRE, See also:FERDINAND (183o—1898) , See also:French novelist, was See also:born at Bedarieux, in See also:Herault, a very picturesque See also:district of the See also:south of See also:France, which he made completely his own in literature. He was the son of a See also:local architect, who failed in business, and Ferdinand was brought up by his See also:uncle, the See also:Abbe Fulcran Fabre, at Camplong among the mulberry See also:woods. Of his childhood and See also:early youth he has given a charming See also:account in Ma Vocation (1889). He was destined to the priesthood, and was sent for that purpose to the See also:seminary of St Pons de Thomieres, where, in 1848, he had, as he believed, an ecstatic See also:vision of See also:Christ, who warned him " It is not the will of See also:God that See also:thou shouldst be a See also:priest." He had now to look about for a profession, and, after attempting See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier, was articled as a lawyer's clerk in See also:Paris. In 1853 he published a See also:volume of verses, Feuilles de See also:lierre, See also:broke down in See also:health, and crept back, humble and apparently without ambition, to his old See also:home at Bedarieux. After some eight or nine years of See also:country See also:life he reappeared in Paris, with the MS. of his earliest novel, See also: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. This See also:story enjoyed an immediate success with the See also:literary class of readers; See also:George See also:Sand praised it, Sainte-Beuve hailed in its author " the strongest of the disciples of See also:Balzac," and it was crowned by the French See also: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 of novels, of which at the time of his See also:death he had published about twenty. Among these the most important were Le Cheerier (1868), unique among his See also:works as written in an experimental mixture of Cevenol See also:patois and French of the 16th See also:century; L'Abbe Tigrane, candidat a la papaute (1873), by See also:common consent the best of See also:alI Fabre's novels, a very powerful picture of unscrupulous priestly ambition; Mon Oncle See also:Celestial. (1881), a study of the entirely single and See also:tender-hearted country abbe; and See also:Lucifer (1884), a marvellous See also:gallery of serious clerical portraits. In 1883 Fabre was appointed See also:curator of the See also:Mazarin Library, with rooms in the See also:Institute, where, on 11th See also:February 1898, he died after a brief attack of See also: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 writers of fiction. He deals almost exclusively with the See also:population of the See also: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 soul See also:drawn between the spiritual
vocation and the See also:physical demands of nature. Although never a priest, he preserved a comprehension of and a sympathy with the clerical See also: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. 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 as he was wholesome and charming.
See also J. See also:Lemaitre, Les Contemporains, vol. H.; G. Pellissier, Etudes de litterature contemporaine (1898) ; E. W. See also:Gosse, French Profiles (1905). (E.
End of Article: FABRE, FERDINAND (183o—1898)
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