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FÉNELON (François de Salygnac de la Motthe). LES AVENTURES de Télémaque. A Paris. 1830. - FÉNELON (François de Salygnac de la Motthe) LES AVENTURES de Télémaque . A Paris: Chez C0rbet Ainé, 1830. xxxvi, 436 pp., 24 est.: il.; 170 mm. François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (Périgord, 1651; Cambrai, 1715), Archbishop of Cambrai, theologian and writer, was tutor to the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. ”The Adventures of Telemachus” were composed around 1694 as a pedagogical tool for the prince's education and published without the author's permission in 1699, to resounding success. The work, written in rhythmic prose in the manner of Homeric poems, narrates Telemachus's journeys in search of his father Odysseus, accompanied by his mentor Minerva in the figure of Mentor, and constitutes a mirror for princes disguised as an adventure novel, with implicit criticism of the absolutism of Louis XIV. It became one of the most widely read and reprinted books of French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. 18th and 19th century, adopted throughout Europe as a text for teaching French and as a model of classical prose. This edition contains 24 engravings, one for each of the books in the work. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate