Engraving entitled FENELON Golden wooden frame. Very thick Scene with archbishop. Born at the Château de Fénelon in Périgord on August 6, 1651. Tutor to the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV, in 1689. When he presented himself to the Academy, he had only composed one work, on the Education of Girls; he was elected on March 7, 1693, in replacement of Pellisson, and received by Bergeret on March 31, 1693; he had received two black balls against his admission. He was appointed Archbishop of Cambrai in 1695. Fénelon preached at fifteen, was a religious writer and a mystical Christian philosopher. He left behind fifty-five works, of which at least two place him at the forefront of our literary glories, the Treatise on the Existence of God and Télémaque. A friend of Bossuet, he later had a controversy with him that lasted three years, at the end of which he succumbed under the accusation of Quietism brought against him by his formidable opponent; condemned by the court of Rome, Fénelon accepted this judgment with admirable humility (1699). He was exiled from the court and retired to his archbishopric; ill from the shock felt in a carriage accident, he died six days later. His eulogy was written by La Harpe and by d’Alembert. The Scotsman Ramsay, Cardinal de Bausset, and Abbot Gosselin each wrote a History of Fénelon; Villemain dedicated a Notice to him. Died January 8, 1715. Authenticity: Original Type: Engraving Period: 19th century and before Characteristics: Framed Theme: Genre scene