It has been a busy summer. First, France for three weeks, renewing ties with Levinas scholars in Paris and Montpellier (Georges Hansel, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Catherine Chalier, Marlène Zarader), then a visit to Saint-Léons, to the "maison natale" of Jean Henri Fabre, and the museum next door to it. We stayed with Xavier Costes and his wife Renée: the former is the secretary of the Amis de Jean Henri Fabre association, the latter a gifted illusrator and watercolorist. Their home, or "mas" as it is called in Provençal, dates back to the early 17th century. To visit the fascinating Amis de Jean Henri Fabre website, click here.
The occasion for the that part of the visit (for which I got grant from Berry College) was an article I wrote on Fabre's work, and which was published (is being published--since only the first part has appeared to date) in the Bulletin des Amis.

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