Fénelon

[ feynuh-lawn ]

noun

1. Fran·çois de Sa·li·gnac de La Mothe [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, d, uh, s, a, lee-, nyak, d, uh, l, a, -, mawt], 1651–1715, French theologian and writer.

Fénelon

/ fenlɔ̃ /

noun

1. FénelonFrançois de Salignac de La Mothe16511715MFrenchRELIGION: theologianWRITING: writer François de Salignac de La Mothe (frɑ̃swa də saliɲak də la mɔt). 1651–1715, French theologian and writer; author of Maximes des saints (1697), a defence of quietism, and Les aventures de Télémaque (1699), which was construed as criticizing the government of Louis XIV

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Fenelon has said that in a certain stage of piety there is much of self, and Coley was evidently in that stage.

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“Nothing is more neglected than the education of daughters,” said Fenelon, in the first sentence of his noted work on the subject.

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Fenelon accepted this servile devotion, regarding it as a part of the woman's penance for sins done in the past.

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The Madame was fifty; Fenelon was forty-seven—they certainly were old enough to know better, but they did not.

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Fenelon was suave, gentle, and won by an appeal to the highest and best in the hearts of his hearers.

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