As Archbishop of Cambrai, Fénelon spent most of his time in the archiepiscopal palace in Cambrai, but also devoted several months of each year to visitation of his archdiocese.

Fontenelle and Houdar de la Motte were the great men of her celebrated salon, where one could also encounter Marie-Catherine d ’ Aulnoy, the poet Catherine Bernard, the Abbé de Bragelonne, Father Buffier, the Abbé de Choisy, Madame Dacier, the mathematician Dortous de Mairan, Fénelon, Hénault, Marivaux, the Abbé Mongault, Montesquieu, the lawyer Louis de Sacy ( one of the Marquise ’ s favorites ), the Marquis de Sainte-Aulaire, Baronne Staal, Madame de Tencin who received the Marquise ’ s guests at her death in 1733, or the Abbé Terrasson.

Fénelon also was critical of the film's accuracy, citing an unrealistic degree of freedom among the prisoners.

Even the memoirist Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, who generally disliked Fénelon, admitted that when Fénelon became tutor, the duke was a spoiled, violent child ; when Fénelon left him, the duke had learned the lessons of self-control and had been thoroughly impressed with a sense of his future duties.

In 1689 he was appointed sub-preceptor of the dukes of Burgundy, of Anjou, and of Berry, and thus became intimately associated with Fénelon, their chief tutor.

Other potential sources of controversy were represented by Fénelon's novelistic rendering of her experience, with reconstructed conversations and thinly veiled name changes ( Violette Jacquet became " Florette ," Hélène Scheps and Hélène Rounder both became " Irene ," Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was " Marta ," and Fanny Birkenwald was " Anny "), and her frank treatment of both prostitution and lesbianism in the camps, with several alleged lesbian liaisons between orchestra members ( toward which Fénelon was compassionate ).

In 1699, he decided in favour of Jacques-Benigne Bossuet in that prelate's controversy with Fénelon about the Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure of the latter.

Three years later, he was battling with Fénelon over the love of God.

Philip was tutored with his brothers by François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai.

Fénelon's early education was provided in the Château de Fénelon by a private tutor which provided Fénelon with a thorough grounding in the Greek language and classics.

During this period, Fénelon had become friends with his future rival Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.

As tutor, Fénelon was charged with guiding the character formation of a future King of France.

Furthermore, Fénelon disagreed with Bossuet's interpretation of the Articles d ' Issy, so in response Fénelon wrote Explication des Maximes des Saints ( a work often regarded as his masterpiece-English: Maxims of the Saints ), in which he provided his own interpretation of the Articles d ' Issy, interpreting them in a way much more sympathetic to the Quietist viewpoint than Bossuet's interpretation.

During the War of the Spanish Succession, Spanish troops encamped in his archdiocese ( an area only recently gained by France from Spain ), but the troops never interfered with Fénelon in the exercise of his archiepiscopal duties.

It figures in the projects of Saint-Simon and Fénelon though the latter would have preferred to begin with an assembly of non-elected notables.

He was a prominent supporter of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, in the controversies with Richard Simon, François Fénelon and the Jesuits.

Noailles was a friend of François Fénelon, with whom he had studied at the Collège du Plessis before entering the Sorbonne.

Ladies such as Mme de Sévigné forsook him when Bourdaloue dawned on the Paris horizon in 1669, though Fénelon and La Bruyère, two much sounder critics, refused to follow their example.

He parodied Homer to serve the cause of Antoine Houdar de La Motte, ( 1672 – 1731 ) an ingenious paradoxer ; Marivaux had already done something similar for François Fénelon, whose Telemachus he parodied and updated as Le Telemaque travesti ( written in 1714 but not published until 1736 ).

The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a 1699 book entitled Les Aventures de Telemaque, by the French writer François Fénelon In the book the lead character is that of Mentor.

Then Ronsard was, except by a few men of taste, such as Jean de La Bruyère and Fénelon, forgotten when he was not sneered at.

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon ( 6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715 ), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.

Fénelon was born on 6 August 1651 at the Château de Fénelon, in Sainte-Mondane, Périgord, Aquitaine, the second of the three children of Pons de Salignac, Comte de La Mothe-Fénelon by his wife Louise de La Cropte.

When the young man expressed interest in a career in the church, his uncle, the Marquis Antoine de Fénelon ( a friend of Jean-Jacques Olier and Vincent de Paul ) arranged for him to study at the Collège du Plessis, whose theology students followed the same curriculum as the theology students at the Sorbonne.

In 1678, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, selected Fénelon to head the house of Nouvelles-Catholiques, a community for Protestant converts about to enter the Church of Rome.

The Duchesse de Beauvilliers, who was the mother of eight daughters, asked Fénelon his advice on raising children ; as a result, he wrote his Traité de l ' education des filles.

In 1688, Fénelon first met Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, usually known simply as " Mme Guyon " or simply Madame Guyon.

Upon Beauvilliers ' recommendation, Fénelon was named the tutor of the Dauphin's eldest son, the 7-year-old Duke of Burgundy, who was second in line for the throne.

Although confined to the archdiocese to Cambrai, in his later years, Fénelon continued to act as a spiritual director for Mme de Maintenon, the ducs de de Chevreuse and de Beauvilliers, the duke of Burgundy, and a number of other prominent individuals.

An aristocratic ideal of government emerged around the personalities of Fénelon ( the famous archbishop of Cambrai and tutor of the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV and heir to the throne ), the duc de Beauvilliers ( governor of the duke of Burgundy ), the duc de Chevreuse ( son-in-law of Colbert ), and the duc de Saint-Simon ( reformist in the circle of the duke of Burgundy and author of famous historical memoirs ).

Fénelon, 24 years his junior, was an old pupil who had suddenly grown into a rival ; like Bossuet, Fénelon was a bishop who served as a royal tutor.

Fénelon, who had been attracted to Mme Guyon's ideas, signed off on the Articles, and Mme Guyon submitted to the judgment.

In sharp contrast to Bossuet, who, when tutor to the Dauphin had written Politique tirée de l ' Écriture sainte which affirmed the divine foundations of absolute monarchy while at the same exercising the future king to use restraint and wisdom in exercising his absolute power, in Telemachus, Fénelon went so far as to write " Good kings are rare and the generality of monarchs bad " ( p. 254 ).

During the war, Fénelon opened his palace to refugees from around the archdiocese who had fled in the face of Spanish troops.

The Duke of Burgundy was reputed to be a difficult child who respected no one, but under the influence of his tutor François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, he grew into a very pious and religious man.

Fénelon and Guyon were cousins ; Fénelon was deeply impressed by her piety and actively discipled her ; he would later become a devotee and defender of her brand of Quietism.

These articles were signed by Fénelon and the Bishop of Chartres, as well as by all three members of the commission.

Fénelon particularly condemned Pasquier Quesnel's Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament, and his writings were part of the build-up to Pope Clement XI's 1713 bull Unigenitus, condemning Quesnel's opinions.

His French models were the stylists of the Ancien Régime: Voltaire, Rousseau, Fénelon, Buffon, Cochin and d ' Aguesseau.

In his portrait sculptures the likenesses were said to have been remarkably successful ; he produced portrait busts of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV and Louis XV at Versailles, Colbert ( the kneeling figure of his tomb at Saint-Eustache ), Cardinal Mazarin ( in the church of the Collège des Quatre-Nations ), the Grand Condé ( in the Louvre ), Maria Theresa of Austria, Turenne, Vauban, Cardinals de Bouillon and de Polignac, the duc de Chaulnes ( National Gallery of Art, Washington ); Fénelon, Racine, André Le Nôtre ( church of St-Roch ); Bossuet ( in the Louvre ), the comte d ' Harcourt, William Egon Cardinal Fürstenberg as well as Charles Le Brun ( in the Louvre ).

The best known were Bossuet, Bourdaloue, and Massillon ; Fénelon burnt his sermons.