Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents

Lucien Fabre (1889-1952) was a French engineer, industrialist, and multifaceted writer known for blending scientific vulgarization, poetry, novels, and essays. He gained prominence with his 1921 book Les Théories d'Einstein, one of the first French explanations of relativity praised by Einstein, and won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1923 for his novel Rabevel ou le mal des ardents, alongside later awards like the 1948 Grand Prix d'histoire de l'Académie française for Jeanne d'Arc. English