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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Famous quotes containing the word tribute:
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“His meter was bitter, and ironic and spectacular and inviting: so was life. There wasn’t much other life during those times than to what his pen paid the tribute of poetic tragic glamour and offered the reconciliation of the familiarities of tragedy.”
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