Mythology, 1792, Ulysses | Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse. Par feu Messire François de Salignac, De la Motte-Fénelon, [...] Nouvelle édition, conforme au manuscrit original, et enrichie de figures. A Amsterdam, Chez van Harrevelt Soetens, 1792, 460 pp.

Fénelon, F.

Didactic literature, 1792, French | Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d’Ulysse. Par feu Messire François de Salignac, De la Motte-Fénelon, […] Nouvelle édition, conforme au manuscrit original, et enrichie de figures. A Amsterdam, Chez van Harrevelt Soetens, 1792, 460 pp.

Name: Didactic literature, 1792, French | Les Avantures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse. Par feu Messire François de Salignac, De la Motte-Fénelon, [...] Nouvelle édition, conforme au manuscrit original, et enrichie de figures. A Amsterdam, Chez van Harrevelt Soetens, 1792, 460 pp.
SKU: 67539
Availability: InStock

When Telemachos reaches manhood, he sets off on a journey to find his wandering father, who has yet to return home from the Trojan War. With multiple engraved plates and a foldable map of Telemachos’s travels. Inscription on second front endleaf: “H. W. Greven. 1840”

As the appointed tutor of the Dauphin of France’s eldest son, Fénelon was charged with guiding the character formation of a future King of France. During this period, Fénelon wrote several important works for the specific purpose of guiding his young charge, such as the Fables and the Dialogues des Morts. His pedagogical concepts and literary works exerted a lasting influence on French culture.

By far the most lasting of Fénelon’s works was his Les Aventures de Télémaque, a didactic novel telling the story of Ulysses’ son Telemachos. Below the surface however it voices an attack on the divine right absolute monarchy (the dominant ideology of Louis XIV’s France). The work became an immediate best seller both in France and abroad. It was translated into many languages and inspired numerous imitations.

Greek mythology – Telemachus – Telemachy – Pylos – Sparta – Ithaca – Odyssey – Ulysses – Penelope – Trojan War – Odysseus – Odyssee – droit divin – French – Louis XIV – antiquity – education – didactic literature – children’s literature – Louis de France

SKU: 67539

Modern linen hardcover, 17 x 10.3 cm. Some scattered stains, large stain on p. 460.

€ 87,20 (€ 80,00 ex. btw)

In stock