Fénelon

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon was born on 6 August 1651 at the château de Fénelon. A priest, he was appointed in 1689 tutor to the duc de Bourgogne, grandson of Louis XIV. Elected to the Académie française in 1693, archbishop of Cambrai in 1695, he opposed Bossuet in the quarrel over Quietism, was removed from court and saw one of his books of spirituality condemned by Rome in 1699. Retired to his diocese, he remained there until his death, in January 1715.

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• NovelThe Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of UlyssesLes Aventures de TélémaqueFénelon · 1699LiteraturePublic domain