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François Fénelon

François Fénelon
François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (d. 1715)

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS, more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. He was a member of the Sulpician Fathers.

6 August 1651

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