Word: fenelon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the less-known figures that Mr. Bradford is most successful. Here the narrative details he supplies are fresher and more interesting, and he is well able to reveal an enigma at least where he cannot explain it. Discussing Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament, worlds apart in their actual careers, his impartial sympathy for both leaves the reader free to enter sympathetically into their characters. It is high praise for this kind of biography to say that it makes the reader eager to go beyond the information given, and study the characters at first hand...