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Author: Fenelon, F. de Salignac de la Mothe

Biography:

FENELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715)

An influential French Roman Catholic clergyman, ultimately Archbishop of Cambrai. Appointed tutor to the eldest grandson of Louis XIV in 1689, he wrote an (educational) adventure story about Telemachus the son of Odysseus for the boy in 1693-4 which became an immediate bestseller.

 

Other Names:

  • Fenelon
 

Books written (13):

London: [no publisher: "for the Translator"; sold by Almon and others], 1776
London: [no publisher: printed by Nichols, sold by Becket and others], 1785
London: J. Debrett, H. Gardner, W. Owen, J. Denis, and J. Johnson, 1788
Chester: [no publisher: printed by Fletcher], [1792?]
2nd edn. London: Parsons; Ridgway; Symonds, [1792?]
2nd edn. London: Parsons; Ridgway; Symonds, 1794
London: printed for the author by Sampson Low, 1799
Edinburgh: [no publisher: printed "for the author"], 1809
York/ London/ Dublin: W. Alexander and Co./ Harvey and Darton, and E. Fry/ D. F. Gardiner, 1833