The Insect Man

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Eleanor Doorly. The Insect Man

The Insect Man

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter I

The Yew Tree Family who journeyed to. find Fabre

Chapter II

How the Quest Began

The Tale of the Cigale[1]

The Tale of the Digger-Wasps[2]

Chapter III

St. Léons. Fabre’s Village

Chapter IV

School and a Pond

The Story of the Pond[5]

Chapter V

Misfortune comes to Fabre

Chapter VI

A Famous Lesson at Avignon

Chapter VII

The Sunken Lane

Chapter VIII

Scorpions

The Tale of The Languedoc Scorpion[15]

Chapter IX

The Sacred Beetle

The Tale of the Sacred Beetle[17]

Chapter X

Visitors

The Story of Pasteur’s Visit[18]

The Visit of the Chief Inspector[19]

The Visit of Victor Duruy[20]

Chapter XI

Swallows

Chapter XII

Insects in Sérignan

A Tale of Mason-Bees[23]

The Tale of the Pine Processionaries[24]

Chapter XIII

Fabre’s Garden

The Story of the Tarantula[26]

Story of the Praying Mantis.[28]

Chapter XIV

Friends to Dinner[29]

Chapter XV

A Moth and a Butterfly

The Story of the Peacock Moth[30]

List of References

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Eleanor Doorly

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“A cigale is called a cicada in English and it is not a grasshopper.

“The Insect Man says that a long, long time ago, before there were any books, some wise man in India wanted to teach people to save their grain in harvest to be ready for the cold weather. So he told them a parable of a little singing beast, who starved in the winter because he had no savings, and could not borrow from the ant. And the little singing beast had no name in Europe, because he didn’t live here and people have an awkward way of not giving names to things they have never seen, which makes translation very difficult. So Æsop, a Greek, who wanted to repeat the fable of the singing beast, and was careless about the right name, called him or her, a cicada. But any ploughman, who dug up the cicada’s sleeping chrysalis in winter, could have told him what nonsense it was to think a cicada ever lived in the winter. La Fontaine just went on with Æsop’s mistake. And the man who did the picture in La Fontaine’s book, a man called Grandville, drew a grasshopper, a sauterelle, not a cicada at all. He drew the ant dressed up as a good housekeeper and the grasshopper bowing at her door beside great sacks of corn, with her guitar under her arm and her thin frock clinging round her, blown by the cold wind.

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