Word: fenelon
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...French department, and will be immediately placed on brackets in Sever 19 and 23. The busts vary in size from 75 centimetres to one metre in height, costing from 10 to 25 francs each. The list is as follows: J. J. Rousseau, Moliere, Pierre Corneille, Bossuet, Diderot, Fenelon, Boileau, Descartes, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Buffon, Racine...
Once in the Rhetoric class one is qualified to read with profit the best French authors; but nothing is read except what has particular reference to rhetoric or style; as, for example, the Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required...
...himself played a part, or at least taken sides, and that, too, in a country so often shaken and its government overturned by successive revolutions. In this year philosophy is begun. Certain of the Greek, Latin, and French philosophers are read, - Seneca, Cicero, Plato, Xenophon, Descartes, Pascal, Fenelon, Bossuet. These authors are analyzed and philosophical dissertations made thereon...