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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.   FeNelon, Francois


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Franois de Salignac de la Mothe, more commonly known as Franois Fnelon (1651 - 1715), was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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