Tribute
- The French post office commemorated Fabre in 1956 with a stamp depicting a portrait of him.
- Fabre makes an appearance in the Original Video Animation Read or Die is among as one of eight clones of historical figures that served as the villains in the animation.
- Blood of the Mantis, a 2009 Fantasy novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky (and set in a fictional universe where different human races are modeled on different insects) is dedicated to Fabre.
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