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

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

As already noted, Fénelon had met Mme Guyon in 1688 and had subsequently become an admirer of her work.

Fénelon refused to sign, arguing that Mme Guyon had already admitted her mistakes and there was no point in further condemning her.

* The French had Francis de Sales, Jeanne Guyon, François Fénelon, Brother Lawrence and Blaise Pascal.

1628-1697 ), spread in France, where it was espoused by Madame Guyon ( 1648 – 1717 ) and for a time attracted François Fénelon.

Fénelon also became friendly with the Duc de Beauvilliers and the Duc de Chevreuse, who were married to the daughters of Louis XIV's minister of finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

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.

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.

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 ).

Bossuet might scribble nova, mira, falsa in the margins of his book and urge on Fénelon to attack them ; Malebranche politely met his threats by saying that to be refuted by such a pen would do him too much honor.

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.

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 ).

Two French writers of eminence borrowed the title of Lucian ’ s most famous collection ; both Fontenelle ( 1683 ) and Fénelon ( 1712 ) prepared Dialogues des morts (" Dialogues of the Dead ").

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.

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.

He tried his fortune by writing éloges of famous persons, then a favorite practice ; in 1771, his Éloge on Fénelon was pronounced by the French Academy as second only to that by La Harpe.

" Fénelon ( Second Dialogue ) describes it as portrayal ; De Quincey, as a holding of the thought until the mind gets time to eddy about it ; Newman gives a masterly analysis of it ; his own sermons are remarkable for this quality of amplification as are those of Bourdaloue on the intellectual, and those of Massillon on the intellectual-emotional side, v. g. the latter's sermon on the Prodigal Son.

Rosé died in 1944 of unknown causes ; poisoning was suspected by Fénelon and others, but according to Newman and Kirtley the cause was likely to be either botulism or typhus.

* Playing for Time, Linda Yellen 1980, TV-movie based on Arthur Miller's stage adaptation ; the source of much controversy for its choice of Vanessa Redgrave, a PLO sympathizer, to play Fania Fénelon ; Fénelon opposed the not-very-Jewish-looking Redgrave on the grounds that she was miscast as well as being anti-Israeli.

Of similar didactic aim was Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque ( 1694 — 96 ), which represents a classicist's attempt to overcome the excesses of the baroque novel ; using a structure of travels and adventures ( grafted onto Telemachus — the son of Ulysses ), Fénelon exposes his moral philosophy.

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.

The first archbishop appointed by the king of France was François Fénelon.

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.

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.

Fénelon demonstrated so much talent at the Collège du Plessis that at age 15, he was asked to give a public sermon.

Upon Bossuet's suggestion, Fénelon was included in this group, alongside such oratorical greats as Louis Bourdaloue and Esprit Fléchier.

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.

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

In the 1st century AD, sterling qualities such as those enumerated above by Fénelon ( excepting perhaps belief in the brotherhood of man ) had been attributed by Tacitus in his Germania to the German barbarians, in pointed contrast to the softened, Romanized Gauls.

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.

Fénelon accepted, and he was consecrated by his old friend Bossuet in August.

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.

Père de la Chaise had a lasting and unalterable affection for Archbishop Fénelon, which remained unchanged by the papal condemnation of the Maximes.

Fénelon wrote that the orchestra was scheduled to be shot to death on the same day as the liberation by British troops.