Fran%C3%A7ois F%C3%A9nelon
Franois de Salignac de la MotheFnelon , more commonly known as Franois Fnelon , was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.
Fnelon was born onAugust 1651 at the Chteau de Fnelon, in SainteMondane, Prigord, Aquitaine, in the Dordogne river valley, the second of the three children of Pons de Salignac, Comte de La MotheFnelon by his wife Louise de La Cropte. Reduced to the status of impecunious old nobility by Franois time, the La MotheFnelons had produced leaders in both Church and state. His uncle Antoine currently served as bishop of nearby Sarlat, a see in which fifteen generations of the Fnelon family had filled the episcopal chair. In fact, so many members of the family occupied the position that it had begun to be considered as practically a familial apanage to which the SalignacFnelon had a right as seigneurs of the locality
Source: Wikipedia