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PHILOSOPHER

François Fénelon

1651 - 1715

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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS (French: [də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Fénelon has received more than 333,491 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). François Fénelon is the 240th most popular philosopher (up from 276th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from France (up from 718th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Philosopher.

François Fénelon was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, and writer. He is most famous for his work "Maxims of the Saints" which is a collection of maxims on Christian spirituality.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, François Fénelon ranks 240 out of 1,081. Before him are Iamblichus, Shen Kuo, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Epimenides, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Guy Debord. After him are Apollodorus of Athens, Ivan Illich, Thomas Carlyle, Theano, Ibn al-Nafis, and Celsus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, François Fénelon ranks 2. Before him is Margaret Theresa of Spain. After him are Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, William Dampier, Natalya Naryshkina, Engelbert Kaempfer, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, and Dimitry of Rostov. Among people deceased in 1715, François Fénelon ranks 4. Before him are Louis XIV of France, Nicolas Malebranche, and Gülnuş Sultan. After him are Dom Pérignon, Thomas Savery, Marie Mancini, William Dampier, Antoine Galland, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Pu Songling.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Fénelon ranks 604 out of 6,011. Before him are Héloïse (1101), Sophie Marceau (1966), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Pasquale Paoli (1725), Guy Debord (1931), and Michel Piccoli (1925). After him are Henri Barbusse (1873), Pierre Boulez (1925), Marie of Anjou (1404), Albert Uderzo (1927), Isabelle Adjani (1955), and Pierre Bonnard (1867).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, François Fénelon ranks 33. Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), and Guy Debord (1931). After him are Jacques Maritain (1882), Nicole Oresme (1323), Roger Garaudy (1913), Georges Sorel (1847), Raymond Aron (1905), and Félix Guattari (1930).

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