FENELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe, fran-swa de si-li-nyak de la mot fan-lon, French missionary: b. 1641; d. 1679. He was a half-brother of Archbishop Fenelon (q.v.). He sailed for Quebec in 1667 in re sponse to Bishop Laval's appeal for missionary reinforcements. He was ordained in the fol lowing and being a Sulpician established a mission to the Cayugas at Quinte Bay. Here he remained till 1673, when the Recollets replaced the Sulpicians on the north shore of Lake Ontario. In 1674 he offended the choleric Frontenac, governor of New France, by a sermon in which a covert attack was made on the governor, was summoned before the council, compelled to leave the country, and on his arrival in France was forbidden to re turn.
FgNELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe, French prelate: b. Château de Fine lon, Perigord, France, 6 Aug. 1651; d. Cambray, 7 Jan. 1715. He was educated at Plessis Col lege in Paris and at the seminary of Saint Sul pice, where he received holy orders in. 1675. In 1678 he was appointed head of an institution, then newly organized in Paris, for the recep tion of women converts to the Roman Catholic faith; and the success with which he there dis charged his duties led to his appointment in 1686 as head of a mission to Saintonge for the conversion of the Huguenots. In 1689 Louis XIV entrusted to him the education of his grandson, the duke of Burgundy, and to his task he devoted himself with unwearied assidu ity. In the result it was held that the duke was brought up on too high ideals, which left him pious but emasculated; and in 1694 he was created archbishop of Cambray. A theological dispute with Bossuet, his former instructor, on the subject pf Quietism (q.v.), terminated in the condemnation of Finelon's side of the controversy by Pope Innocent and his banishment to his diocese by Louis XIV. To the Pope's decision Fenelon unreservedly and humbly submitted. The rest of his life was spent In devoted labor in his diocese.
His works on philosophy, theology and the belles-lettres have immortalized his name. He was familiar with the best models of ancient and modern times and his mind was animated by a mild and gentle spirit of benevolence. His style is fluent and pleasing, pure and harmo nious. His most celebrated work is 'Les Aven tures de Telemaque, in which he endeavored to exhibit a model for the education of a prince. It was carried off and published by a valet employed to transcribe the manuscript. On the appearance of this work Louis manifested dis pleasure toward Fenelon, conceiving this his torical romance to be a satire on his reign and forbade the completion of the printing. Some malicious persons pretended, what Fenelon him self never thought of, that the characters were thin disguises of personages at the court. But there was nothing singular, apart from the sus picion referred to, in the kin's displeasure Fenelon's liberal ideas, as embodied in the book, that the king existed for his subjects and not they for him, were anathema to an absolute monarch. Nor was he ever dazzled by the veneer of splendor and the military glories of the reign. Among his other works are (Traite de I'Education des Filles' ; (Traite du Ministere des Pasteurs' • (Explication des Max imes des Saintes' • (Dialogues on the Eloquence of the Pulpit' ;