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Due to the lack of family income, he was forced to drop out of school and worked as a railway worker and lemon vendor. Although life was hard, Fables did not give up the pursuit of knowledge and insisted on self-study. /kloc-at the age of 0/9, he was admitted to avignon Normal School, got a scholarship, got a teacher's diploma, and then started a long teaching career.
In addition to teaching and writing books, he continued to teach himself, and successively obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics. 1855, Fabres received his doctorate from the Paris Academy of Sciences. Gradually became famous in the scientific community. 1865, Pasteur made a special trip to avignon to ask Fabres about silkworms.
1866, he became the curator of the avignon D 'Avignon in avignon, and the British economist Mill visited twice, and they became good friends. The following year, fabrice went to Paris to visit Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte and was awarded the Knight Medal.
1870, Fabres's advanced teaching methods attracted criticism from conservative religious figures (for example, accusing him of explaining the process of flower pollination to women at night school), and he was forced to resign from his teaching post, and the life of a family of seven was immediately in trouble. Thanks to Mill's help, he was able to tide over the difficulties. The whole family moved to Orange to write popular science books and textbooks to earn a meager income.
1877, his second son Jules, a general who loved nature, died at the age of 16, which made Fabres heartbroken. Two years later, I moved to the south of Seyrig in the province of Vaucros, where I bought a house and an adjacent wasteland, and named the garden "wasteland garden" (Provencal language: L'Harmas, meaning wasteland), where I concentrated on observation, experiment and writing. In the same year, the first volume of Insects was published.
Shortly after living in seclusion in the deserted stone garden, Fables' wife died of illness. He remarried at the age of 60 and had three children. In the last few years of his life, various honors kept falling on Fabres: a statue of him was erected in a small village, the President of the Republic of China personally visited him and gave him an annuity, the European Academy of Sciences invited him to be an honorary academician, writers such as romain rolland and maeterlinck paid tribute to him, and some people launched a campaign asking him to nominate Nobel Prize in Literature. Fables died at the age of 965,438+0.
Fables was poor all his life and spent most of his time in the countryside. He wrote a lot and got along well with many contemporary scholars. Although he did not support the theory of evolution, Darwin respected him and called him an "unparalleled observer". In addition to scientific research, Fables also loved to compose some ditties, wrote poems in Provencal, and published poems before his death (Oubreto Proven? Arlo)