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.

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

As a result, even after Fénelon abjured his Quietist views, the king refused to revoke his order forbidding Fénelon from leaving his archdiocese.

The " Dialogues " of Fénelon, however, remained as a check.

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.

Fénelon immediately declared that he submitted to the pope's authority in the matter and set aside his own opinion in the matter.

" 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.

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

* Instructions sur les états d ' oraison ( replying to Fénelon ) ( 1697 )

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 ).

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.

The Queen had evidently anticipated something of the kind, as on 28 June she had written to de la Motte Fénelon that she was advised that Argyll, Atholl, and Boyd " comme désespérés d ' aucuue ayde commancent à se rettirer et regarder qui aura du meilleur ".

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.

Bossuet and Fénelon thus spent the years 1697-99 battling each other in pamphlets and letters until the Inquisition finally condemned the Maximes des Saints on March 12, 1699.

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.

She wrote Advice from a mother to her son ( 1726 ) and Advice from a mother to her daughter ( 1728 ) which are full of nobility and a great elevation of thought, and whose debt to the maxims of Fénelon she recognized: " I found the precepts which I gave to my son in Telemachus and the counsels to my daughter in L ' Éducation des filles.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Bossuet had triumphed in the controversy, and Fénelon submitted to Rome's determination of the matter.

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

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.

According to the fourth century Italian writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon, the story continues as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.

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

In the execution of this task he discovered the letters of Huet, bishop of Avranches, and the manuscripts of the works of 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.

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.

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

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.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

Polk stated in his diary that he believed slavery could not exist in the territories won from Mexico, but refused to endorse the Wilmot Proviso that would forbid it there.

Video footage of the tour was shown on their controversial November 30 television special Songs of America, which TV sponsors refused to endorse because of its distinct anti-Vietnam War message.

Ukraine became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) on December 8, 1991, but in January 1993 it refused to endorse a draft charter strengthening political, economic, and defense ties among CIS members.

This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.

Leo allowed Frederick to drive out Jews that refused to be baptized, but he did not endorse the forced baptism of Jews.

However the same Democratic Convention that had refused to endorse the proviso also rejected incorporating the Yancey proposal into the national platform by a 216 – 36 vote.

President Chen has repeatedly refused to endorse the One China Principle or the more " flexible " 1992 Consensus the PRC demands as a precursor to negotiations with the PRC.

The eastern emperor Leo I refused to endorse Glycerius and elevated his nephew Julius Nepos to co-emperor for the west in 473.

In 1966, in a study of revolutionary socialism, Milorad M. Drachkovitch of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ( a conservative / libertarian think tank ), noted two tactical options which divided late 19th century and early 20th century anarchists from socialists: electoral politics, which the socialists embraced, but anarchists generally opposed ; and, the general strike as a mechanism to prevent war, which anarchists supported, but socialists refused to endorse.

Fox turned away any company that requested he endorse their products and refused any donation that carried conditions as he insisted that nobody was to profit from his run.

Virginia's delegation to the electoral college went against the popular vote and refused to endorse Johnson.

There have also been times when The Post has specifically chosen not to endorse any candidate, such as in the 1988 presidential election when it refused to endorse then Governor Michael Dukakis or then Vice President George H. W.

At any rate, he refused to agree to the deal, and ultimately the Quebec government declined to endorse the constitutional amendment.

According to Groteke, the investigation was not launched because approval from either the mayor or the treasurer was required, and each refused to endorse an investigation.

" She refused to sign the instructions – a last gesture of defiance – and issued a statement that she did not, as queen regnant, endorse the surrender of her own royal power.

When the Spanish media asked King Juan Carlos if he would endorse the bill legalizing gay marriages, he answered " Soy el Rey de España y no el de Bélgica " (" I am the King of Spain, not of Belgium ")– a reference to King Baudouin I of Belgium, who had refused to sign the Belgian law legalising abortion.

Close to the nationalist writer Charles Maurras, founder of the monarchist Action française movement, Barrès refused however to endorse monarchist ideas, although he demonstrated sympathy throughout his life for the Action française.

Although the judiciary initially refused to endorse these loans, they succumbed to pressure after the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Randolph Crewe, was dismissed.

When the media asked King Juan Carlos if he would endorse the 2005 bill legalizing gay marriages ( the implication implied that he may not endorse the bill ), he answered " Soy el Rey de España y no el de Bélgica " (" I am the King of Spain, not of Belgium ")– a reference to King Baudouin I of Belgium who had refused to sign the Belgian law legalising abortion in Belgium.

When the media asked King Juan Carlos if he would endorse the bill legalizing gay marriages, he answered " Soy el Rey de España y no el de Bélgica " (" I am the King of Spain, not of Belgium ") a reference to King Baudouin I of Belgium who had refused to sign the Belgian law legalising abortion.