Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai: A Biographical Sketch (1877) - Tapa dura

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Life of -F dnelon, to steer clear of the repetition of certain matters dwelt on in the Life of Bossuet; while, on the other hand, some subjects have been rather glanced at than dwelt upon, because they have been already handled in connection with the Bishop of Meaux. The immense amount of correspondence and of Memoires, or contemporary records, is a veritable emharras des richesses in writing on this period of Church History, and I feel that this sketch, written amid much interruption and hindrance, is most imperfect and unworthy of its great subject. It may, however, prove suggestive, and lead English people to draw for themselves from that deep well of interesting matter whence my small buckets have come up.
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