FÉNELON (François de Salignac, de la Motte) - Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse ou suite du quatrième livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère. La Haye, Chez Adrien Motjens, 1710; in-12, frontispiece, preface, 278 + 328 pp, contemporary full calf bindings, spines decorated with 5 nerves, speckled edges, (2 volumes of slightly different format and the spine decorations are not identical, but they blend well). The 2 volumes. 17 full-page engravings (at the beginning of each book). François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon (1651-1715) was a 17th-century French theologian and writer, and Bossuet's main opponent of quietist doctrine. His work "Les Aventures de Télémaque" earned the author banishment to Flanders, where he returned to his archbishopric of Cambrai. Les Aventures de Télémaque" is a satire of the reign of Louis XIV, in which the monarch is portrayed as Idoménée, the legendary king of Crete. This work is at once an epic and a treatise on morality and politics. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY