Note 2 — Chapter XIII · THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS: THE INSTRUMENT OF SOUND

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788), the foremost French naturalist and one of the foremost French writers, though his style, as Fabre rightly suggests, was nothing less than pompous. He was the originator, in the speech delivered at his reception into the French academy, of the famous aphorism, “Le style est l’homme même.”—Translator’s Note. ↑