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FÉNELONLivre Rare Book

DE L'EDUCATION DES FILLES, Par Mre de SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FENELON Archevêque Duc de Cambray. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée d'une Lettre du même auteur à une Dame de Qualité sur l'éducation de M*** sa Fille unique.

Fenelon Francois de Salignac de la Mothe.ABAA

Selections from the writings of Fenelon. With a memoir of his life. By a lady.

183136673Boston: Hilliard Gray and Wilkins 1831. 8vo 18.4 cm; 7.25". 304 pp. Fénelon 16511715 a French theologian and archbishop had a tense and complex relationship with the Church hierarchy because of his writings. His office in Cambray was one of the richest benefices in France and upon his banishment from the court of Louis XIV for the publication of his Maxims of the Saints he dedicated himself fully to his position making himself in all that he did the perfect churchman Encyclopaedia Britannica 253. Â Â Â Â The "lady" was Eliza L. Cabot Follen 17871860 the Boston-born author translator and abolitionist. She used her own translation "a free one; but sedulous care has been taken never to depart from the spirit of the author" v and one of her concerns in selection is to de-Catholicize the archbishop allowing his more universal appreciation for as she says his "writings necessarily contain many things that could not be acceptable to Christians of all denominations and have therefore been uniformly omitted" v. Â Â Â Â Fénelon's appearance in Follen's selective epitome would surely have amused him and it pleased the book-buying public: This is the works third edition. Â Â Â Â Provenance: A note states that "this book belonged to Grandmother Dyer: Ann Eliza Morse"; Charles Dyer Norton has also signed an endpaper in ink. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â American Imprints 7028. On Fénelon see: Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. X 25254. Mid-19th-century plain black calf with gilt spine compartments tooled in an interesting pattern single gilt rule around covers a little gilt on board edges marbled endpapers and edges; some wear and abrasions but spine gilt still bright. Provenance markings as above some leaves creased across and a little interior staining and spotting especially at rear. => A nice old book. Hilliard, Gray, and Wilkins unknown books

Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Co., LLC (PRB&M) · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €