FÉNELON (François) - Fénélon des demoiselles, ou choix des p - Lot 382

FÉNELON (François) - Fénélon des demoiselles, ou choix des plus beaux écrits de cet écrivain célèbre. Paris, Louis Janet, Libraire, 1830; in-18, XXVIII-260 pp. + 4 pl. hors-texte, contemporary full brown calf binding, 4 ribbed spine, stamped and ornate boards and spine, gilt edges. François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (1651-1715) was a seventeenth-century French theologian and writer, and Bossuet's greatest 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. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY