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Article: Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715, Volume XVII.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2001
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Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715. Vols XVI and XVII. Texte etabli par et commentaire de JEAN ORCIBAL avec la collaboration de JACQUES LE BRUN et IRENEE NOYE. Geneve: Droz. 1999. 463 pp; 395 pp. 360 F; 315 F.
The final volumes in this major editorial enterprise contain the output from the last years of Fenelon's life, coinciding poignantly with those of Louis XIV, and conveying overall a strong atmosphere of the fin de regne. The letters fall into four main categories. First are those charting the enduring battle against Jansenism, in which Fenelon, now leaving his own alleged unorthodoxy behind him, emerges as a major player in dealings with ...