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Oeuvres de F�nelon, Archev�que de Cambrai, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
by Francois Fenelon
Excerpt from OEuvres de F�nelon, Archev�que de Cambrai, Vol. 3
Quand j ai re�u votre lettre du dernier jour de l'ann�e 1693 j'en avois d�j� anti cip� la r�ponse par une lettre que j'ai confi�e �.\ I. B docteur de Sorbonne. Je vous avoue quej'ai de la peine de prendre le. Sens de la \otre parce que vous y paroissez pr�occup� de certaines ide' 's qui n'ont rien de comaum avec la situation o� je me trou\e votre �gard. On ions a fait une injustice si on vous a imput� d'�tre venu dans ce pays pour y prendre des armes contre la dame que vous me nommez. C'est � quoi nous n'avons song� ni vous ni moi. Bien le sait, et les hommes le conno�tront un jour. Je ne vous ai jamais ou� parler d'elle qu'avec beaucoup d'estime et de respect et ma m�moire ni ma conscience ne me reprochent pas d'en avoir jamais parl� autrement. Si elle a en quelques chagrins � Paris, elle ne les doit imputer qu'aux liai sons qu'elle ones au p�re Lacombe avant m�me que j'eusse le bien de la conno�lre. Et l'on ajoute qu'elle s'est fait des affaires par des communications et des conf�rences qu'elle a eues dans Paris avec quelques per sonnes du parti du qui�tisme outr�. Quelque �loignement que je lui aie toujours t�moign� d'avoir pour cette doctrine et pour les livres du p�re Lacombe, j'ai toujours parl� de la pi�t� et des moeurs de cette dame avec �loge. Voil� en peu de mots les v�ritables senti1nens o�j'ai toujours �t� � son �gard, et qui vous doivent faire conno�trc dans quelles disposi tions je suis pour tout ce qui peut vous int� rosser. Etc.
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Quand j ai re�u votre lettre du dernier jour de l'ann�e 1693 j'en avois d�j� anti cip� la r�ponse par une lettre que j'ai confi�e �.\ I. B docteur de Sorbonne. Je vous avoue quej'ai de la peine de prendre le. Sens de la \otre parce que vous y paroissez pr�occup� de certaines ide' 's qui n'ont rien de comaum avec la situation o� je me trou\e votre �gard. On ions a fait une injustice si on vous a imput� d'�tre venu dans ce pays pour y prendre des armes contre la dame que vous me nommez. C'est � quoi nous n'avons song� ni vous ni moi. Bien le sait, et les hommes le conno�tront un jour. Je ne vous ai jamais ou� parler d'elle qu'avec beaucoup d'estime et de respect et ma m�moire ni ma conscience ne me reprochent pas d'en avoir jamais parl� autrement. Si elle a en quelques chagrins � Paris, elle ne les doit imputer qu'aux liai sons qu'elle ones au p�re Lacombe avant m�me que j'eusse le bien de la conno�lre. Et l'on ajoute qu'elle s'est fait des affaires par des communications et des conf�rences qu'elle a eues dans Paris avec quelques per sonnes du parti du qui�tisme outr�. Quelque �loignement que je lui aie toujours t�moign� d'avoir pour cette doctrine et pour les livres du p�re Lacombe, j'ai toujours parl� de la pi�t� et des moeurs de cette dame avec �loge. Voil� en peu de mots les v�ritables senti1nens o�j'ai toujours �t� � son �gard, et qui vous doivent faire conno�trc dans quelles disposi tions je suis pour tout ce qui peut vous int� rosser. Etc.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comwww.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Francois Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
He was inducted into the Acadmie Francaise in 1693 and named Archbishop of Cambrai in 1695. During his time as the educator and teacher of the Duke, Fenelon wrote several entertaining and educational works, including the extensive novel Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse (The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses), which depicted the ideal of a wise king. When this novel began circulating anonymously among the court, having been fragmentarily published in 1699 without his knowledge, Louis XIV, who saw many criticisms of his absolutistic style of rule in Telemaque, stopped the printing and banned Fenelon from court. Fenelon then retreated to his bishopric in Cambrai, where he remained active writing theological and political treatises until his death on January 17, 1715.In Church history, Fenelon is known especially for his part in the Quietism debate with his earlier patron Bossuet. In his work Explication des maximes des Saints sur la vie interieure (Explanation of the Adages of the Saints on the Inner Life) in 1697, he defended Madame du Guyon, the main representative of Quietistic mysticism. He provided proof that her "heretical" teachings could also be seen in recognized saints. In 1697, Fenelon called on the pope for a decision in the Quietism debate. After long advisement, the Pope banned the Explication in 1699. Fenelon complied with the pope's decision immediately and allowed the remaining copies of his book to be destroyed.
Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois Fenelon, was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a scabrous attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699.
Francois Fenelon (specifically Francois de Salignac de la Motte-Fenelon) was born on August 6, 1651, at Fenelon Castle in Perigord. Fenelon studied at the seminary Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where he was ordained as a priest. Fenelon published his pedagogical work Traite de l'education des filles (Treatise on the Education of Girls) in 1681, which brought him much attention, not only in France, but abroad as well. At this time, he met Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, who soon became his patron and through whose influence Fenelon was contracted by Louis XIV to carry out the re-conversion of the Hugenots in the provinces of Saintonge and Poitou in 1686 and was appointed in 1689 as educator of his grandson and potential successor, the Duc de Bourgogne. Because of this position, he gained much influence at the court.
He was inducted into the Academie Francaise in 1693 and named Archbishop of Cambrai in 1695. During his time as the educator and teacher of the Duke, Fenelon wrote several entertaining and educational works, including the extensive novel Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse (The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses), which depicted the ideal of a wise king. When this novel began circulating anonymously among the court, having been fragmentarily published in 1699 without his knowledge, Louis XIV, who saw many criticisms of his absolutistic style of rule in Telemaque, stopped the printing and banned Fenelon from court. Fenelon then retreated to his bishopric in Cambrai, where he remained active writing theological and political treatises until his death on January 17, 1715.
In Church history, Fenelon is known especially for his part in the Quietism debate with his earlier patron Bossuet. In his work Explication des maximes des Saints sur la vie interieure (Explanation of the Adages of the Saints on the Inner Life) in 1697, he defended Madame du Guyon, the main representative of Quietistic mysticism. He provided proof that her "heretical" teachings could also be seen in recognized saints. In 1697, Fenelon called on the pope for a decision in the Quietism debate. After long advisement, the Pope banned the Explication in 1699. Fenelon complied with the pope's decision immediately and allowed the remaining copies of his book to be destroyed.
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