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his old Rodez headmaster? Are we to say 

 nothing of his articles in the Revue scien- 

 tifique of Brussels, one of the principal 

 organs of Catholic science, or of his very 

 important contributions to the classic series 

 published under the editorship of M. I'Abbe 

 Combes? If we are, rightly, deeply inter- 

 ested in the smallest details of his life and 

 all that concerns him, are we to say nothing 

 of his friendly relations with his cure ^ or of 

 the religious practices of his family and 

 household, or of his generous participation 

 in all the works of charity in his parish, not 

 excepting the free school? 



** Neither of Armagnac nor a Burgun- 

 dian"; neither secular nor clerical. The 

 truth is that if we consider the matter can- 

 didly, without bandaging our eyes and with- 

 out exclusive prejudice, Fabre should serve 

 as a bond of union rather than a bone of 

 contention. 



The ex-Director of the Beaux-Arts, Henry 

 Roujon, who was a fervant apostle of na- 

 tional concord, used to say: "Statutes are 

 only lastingly beautiful if the sons of the 

 same mother can inaugurate them without 

 railing at one another." 



Fabre, according to this maxim, might well 



1 M. I'Abbe Germain, ex-cure of Serignan. 



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