Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
  • The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
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François Fénelon
1651 – 1715
Roman

Roman Catholic archbishop. A tutor of Louis XIV's grandson, he got in trouble with the Court by espousing reforms and in even more trouble with the Church for defending Madame Guyon, a celebrated mystic.

Contemporaries
1624–1691George Fox
1694–1778Voltaire
1632–1677Baruch Spinoza
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1623–1662Blaise Pascal
1632–1704John Locke
1711–1776David Hume
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1628–1688John Bunyan
1667–1748Johann Bernoulli
1655–1705Jakob Bernoulli