Roman Catholic Archbishops of Cambrai - Francois Fenelon, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, Guillaume DuBois (Paperback)

Chapters: Francois Fenelon, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, Guillaume Dubois, Ferdinand Maximilien Meriadec de Rohan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois Fenelon (6 August 1651 7 January 1715), 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 thinly veiled attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699. Fenelon was born on 6 August 1651 at the Chateau de Fenelon, in Sainte-Mondane, Perigord, Aquitaine, the second of the three children of Pons de Salignac, Comte de La Mothe-Fenelon by his wife Louise de La Cropte. Being born into a noble family, many of Fenelon's ancestors had been active in politics, and for several generations his relatives had served as bishops of Sarlat. Fenelon's early education was provided in the Chateau de Fenelon by a private tutor which provided Fenelon with a thorough grounding in the Greek language and classics. In 1667, at age 12, he was sent to the University of Cahors, where he studied rhetoric and philosophy. When the young man expressed interest in a career in the church, his uncle, the Marquis Antoine de Fenelon (a friend of Jean-Jacques Olier and Vincent de Paul) arranged for him to study at the College du Plessis, whose theology students followed the same curriculum as the theology students at the Sorbonne. While there, he became friends with Antoine de Noailles, who later became a cardinal and the Archbishop of Paris. Fenelon demonstrated so much talent at the College du Plessis that at age 15, he was asked to give a public sermon. About 1672 (i.e. around the time he was 21 years old), Fenelon's...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17884