DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DB028-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Article Summary
Fénelon is best-known for his utopian political novel Aventures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse (Telemachus, Son of Ulysses) (1699), which contrasts the rustic simplicity of Greek antiquity with the corrupt luxuriousness of Louis XIV’s Versailles. The crucial philosophical works of Fénelon are the Refutation of Malebranche (c.1686–7) and the Maxims of the Saints (1697).
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Riley, Patrick. Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651–1715), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DB028-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fenelon-francois-de-salignac-de-la-mothe-1651-1715/v-1.
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