Word: fenelon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Lefranc traced the growth of the Renaissance revival of paganism, as opposed to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. The works of D'Urfee, de Scudery, Descartes and others who preceded Moliere are thoroughly pagan in spirit. The great bishop Fenelon wrote from a point of view almost diametrically opposed to that of the mediaeval ascetic Christianity...