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Memoranda. 



Francis de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon was born at the 

 Castle of Fenelon, in Perigord, on August 6, 1651. His father 

 was an old man when he was born. Horace was through life 

 his favourite poet. Fenelon may be described as a Roman 

 Catholic Quaker. His " Maximes des Saintes " is a parallel 

 book with William Penn's " No Cross no Crown " (1627 to 

 1696). The character of Molinos, " the Spanish Quietist," 



Fenelon (1651-1715). 



Archbishop oj Cambray and Author of Telemachus." 



may be profitably compared with that of Fenelon. Bossuet 

 (born 1627, died 1704) was twenty-four years older than 

 Fenelon. Cambray, or Cambrai, is on the Scheldt, thirty-two 

 miles south of Lille. An excellent life of Fenelon will be found 

 in Lear's " Christian Biographies." Madame de Guy on was 

 three years older than Fenelon. Leclerc's edition of Fenelon's 



