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But do you promise me . "—Fenelon would make no promise ; it was not tiil a lone continuance of
good conduct had convinced him of the sincerity of his pupil's repentance , and after a formal inter * cession of Madame de Maintenon , that Fenelon received him into fa * vour .
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character / ' says M . de Bausset , ** " from their general adrrtiration of Telemachus , and possibl \ from a secret wish of revenging the Archbishop of Cambray , against
the injustice of Lewis the Fourteenth , the hostile armies permitted Fenelon to * ~ visit every part of hi * diocese . The English , Germans and Dutch rivalled the inhabitants of Cam bray in veneration for the
Archbishop . All distinctions of religion and sect , all feelings of hatred or jealousy , which divide nations , disappeared in his presence . He was often obliged to have recourse to artifice to avoid
the honours which the armies of the enemy intended him . He refused the military escorts which were offered him , for his personal security in the exercise of his functions ; and without any other attendant , than a few ecclesiastics , he traversed the countries
desolated by war . His way was marked by his alms and benefactions , and by the suspense of the calamities which armies bring . In these short intervals , the people breathed in peace , so that his pastoral visits might be termed the truce "of God .
In one of those visits he met a peasant , still young , but plunged in the deepest affliction . He had recently lost a cow , the only support of his indigent family .
Fene-* M . de Bausset , Bishop of Alais , at the beginning of the French Revolution , and afterwards member of the Imperial Chapter of the church of St Denis , at Paris , published a Life of Fenelon , in 3 vote . 8 vo . in the year 1808 . He seems to have had access to all the papers in the possession of the family of Fenelom From thia work Mr . Butler acknoWleges that his account is principally extracted . E »*
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£ 40 Anecdotes of Fenelon and his Fmnifyi
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It is among his flock ^ that Fenelon appears to most advantage ; in every sense of the word he was their father . His establishment
and stile of living were suitable to his public situation ; but far beneath the scale of expence and shew , which even good men would have thought justifiable . This left him an ample income , but it sunk under his acts of
beneficence . His principal attention was directed towards the labouring peasantry ; he appears to have felt strongly the hardship of their lot . A curate complained to him , that after the evening service of Sunday , his parishioners , in spite
of his remonstrances , would dance ; 4 < My dear friend , " replied Fenelon , ' * neither you nor I should dance ; but let us leave these poor people to dance as they please j their hours of happiness are not too numerous . "
During the contest for the Spanish succession , the Diocese of Cam bray was often the theatre of war , ajnd of course experienced
the cruel ravages of advancing and retreating armies . Under these circumstances , Fenelon frequently made visitations of every part of his diocese : and all the writers of
his life mention a singular mark of homage which was shewn on these occasions to his eminent virtue * ** From their high respect for his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/8/
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