[1] Fabre realized that his company, like the other silk factories in the Uzès region, could not fight competition from Lyon.

He worked with Éduard de Boyve, founder of the Abeille Nîmoise cooperative in 1884, and with the economist Charles Gide (1847–1932).

[2] Fabre supported public education, and was one of the founders of the Société du Sou des Ecoles laïques.

A friend of Numa Gilly, the socialist mayor of Nîmes in the late 1880s, he obtained the creation of a Practical School of Industry and Commerce, and was on the board of this institution until his death.

[1] The precursor of the Peace Through Law Association was founded in Nîmes on 7 April 1887 by six students led by Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen (1868–1967).

[3] Fabre was secretary of the Chambre consultative des coopératives de consommation pour l’Hérault et le Gard.

In 1889 he was appointed to the central committee of the Union coopérative des sociétés de consommation, holding this post until 1912.

[1] In his 1896 pamphlet Les Sky scratchers Fabre praised American-style skyscrapers, which he saw as the solution to the problem of housing workers.