Fénelon (French)
n François de Salignac de La Mothe (<PH:f><PH:r><PH:B><PH:s><PH:w><PH:a> <PH:d><PH:&> <PH:s><PH:a><PH:l><PH:i><PH:M><PH:a><PH:k> <PH:d><PH:&> <PH:l><PH:a> <PH:m><PH:%><PH:t>). 1651--1715, French theologian and writer; author of Maximes des saints (1697), a defence of quietism, and Les aventures de Télémaque (1699), which was construed as criticizing the government of Louis XIV