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==Legacy== The site of his birth, at St Léons, near [[Millau]] is now the site of [[Micropolis (La Cité des Insectes)|Micropolis]], a tourist attraction dedicated to popularising entomology and a museum on his life. His last home and office, the [[Harmas de Fabre]] in [[Provence]] is similarly a museum devoted to his life and work. His insect collection is preserved in the [[Musée Requien]] in [[Avignon]]. {{citation needed|date=October 2020}} The French post office commemorated Fabre in 1956 with a [[Philately|stamp]] depicting a portrait of him.<ref>[http://www.bugsonstamps.com/france/france_03_fabre.htm Fabre commemorative postage stamp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311041022/http://www.bugsonstamps.com/france/france_03_fabre.htm |date=11 March 2007 }}</ref> The 1951 biographical film ''[[Monsieur Fabre]]'' is devoted to his life. ''Blood of the Mantis'', a 2009 fantasy novel by the British author [[Adrian Tchaikovsky]] is dedicated to Fabre.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tchaikovsky|first=Adrian |title=Blood of the Mantis|year=2010 |isbn=978-1-61614-199-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zkmQgAACAAJ}}</ref> Fabre appears as the only major human character in a [[Caper story]] parody set on his property in [[Matthew Bennardo]]'s short story "The Famous Fabre Fly Caper".<ref>[http://www.grumpsjournal.com/jue4/stories/jue4-bennardo.html "The Famous Fabre Fly Caper"]</ref>
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