Les Aventures de Télémaque
work by Fénelon
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discussed in biography
- In François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
…Fénelon composed his best-known work, Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699), in which the adventures of Telemachus in search of his father, Ulysses, symbolically express Fénelon’s fundamental political ideas. During the period of his popularity in official circles, Fénelon enjoyed various honours, including his election to the French Academy in 1693…
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mythology of Telemachus
- In Telemachus
…de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699), which set the fashion for novels about the education of princes or heroes, is about the trials of Telemachus, who is guided by Athena disguised as Mentor. (The character is the basis for the modern use of the word mentor.)
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