SCHEDULE OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF 

 FENELON. 



Date 



Age 



ElOGRAPHY 



Contemporary 

 Events 



1651 



to 

 1660 



1 



to 

 10 



A delicate, sensitive, intelligent child. 

 His ancestors had held high stations 

 in Politics, Army, and Church. 



Louis XIV. eight 

 years King of 

 France. 



Bossuet, aged 24. 



Mme. de Guyon, 

 aged 3. 



1661 



to 

 1670 



10 



to 

 20 



At the University of Cahors. Took de- 

 grees, and received dignity of Abbe. 



Uncle, Marquis de Fenelon, brought 

 him to Plessis, Paris. Preached first 

 sermon with much applause. 



At the Seminary of St. Sulpice. 





1671 



to 

 1680 



20 



to 

 30 



Curate of St. Sulpice. Desired to go 

 as missionary to Montreal. 



Desired to go as missionary to Greece. 



He was engaged from 1676-85 in quiet 

 and successful labours as superior of 

 the Community of Nouvelles Catho- 

 liques, which had for its chief object 

 the instruction of young women re- 



Invasion of Hol- 

 land by Louis, 

 1670 to 1677. 



Peter the Gt. born. 



Siege of Vienna by 

 the Turks. 



1681 



to 

 1690 



30 



to 

 40 



cently converted from Protestant- 

 ism. During this period he wrote 

 his treatise "On the Education of 

 Girls," and another " On the Office 

 of Pastors." 



Sent by the King to Poitou to convert 

 the Protestants. [gundy. 



Became preceptor to Duke of Bur- 



Revocation of 

 Edict of Nantes. 

 James II. 



William and Mary. 



1691 



to 

 1700 



40 



to 

 50 



Explication des Maximes des Saintes. 



Made Archbishop of Cambray. 



Friendship with Madame Guyon, 

 " the Quietist." [tenon, 



Befriended at Court by Mme. Main- 



" Telemachus " published (surrepti- 

 tiously). Banishedfrom LouisXIV. 

 Court. Condemnation by Pope. 



Innocent XII., 

 Pope. 



Treaty of Ryswick. 



1701 



to 

 1710 



50 



to 

 60 



Retired to his see at Cambray, where 

 he lived the remainder of his life. 



Residing at Cambray. 



^Var of the Spanish 



Succession. 

 Death of Wm.III. 

 Anne. 



Death of Bossuet. 

 Battle of Blenheim. 

 Peter the Great's 

 reforms in Russia. 



1711 



to 

 1715 



60 



to 

 64 



Death of Duke of Burgundy. The 



" Dialogues des Morts." 

 Death of his friend, Duke de Beau- 

 Died January 17, 17 15. villiers. 



Death of Queen 

 George I. [Anne. 

 Louis XIV. died, 

 Sept., 1715. 



