FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe) - Les Aventures d - Lot 309

FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe) - Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot ainé, anVII (1799); in-12, II-226 + 219 pp, contemporary full marbled calf binding, ornate smooth spines, speckled edges, beige morocco title-pieces and green tome. The 2 volumes. François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (1651-1715) was a seventeenth-century French theologian and writer, and Bossuet's main opponent of Quietist doctrine. His work "Les Aventures de Télémaque" earned the author banishment to Flanders, where he returned to his archbishopric of Cambrai. Les Aventures de Télémaque" is a satire of the reign of Louis XIV, in which the monarch is portrayed as Idoménée, the legendary king of Crete. The work is both an epic and a treatise on morality and politics. Good condition. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY