“‘I know what I am, and I know also what you are.’
“Fénelon’s prudent conduct quite won back the affection of the child.
“‘I will leave the Duke of Burgundy [his title] behind the door when I am with you,’ he used to say, ‘and I will be only little Louis.’
“Fénelon turned the boy’s mind to piety, and for a time influenced him by it. ‘All his mad fits and spites,’ he said of his pupil, ‘yielded to the name of God.’
“But Fénelon, like all good and pure men of the time, was condemned by the court and the Church. Télémaque, written to train the mind of the young prince in the principles of virtue, caused him to lose favor with the court, and he spent the last years of his life in virtual exile.
THE CATHEDRAL AT NANTES.
