Les Aventures de Télémaque
1699 novel by François Fénelon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse (English: The adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses) is a didactic novel by François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, who in 1689 became tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne (grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the French throne). It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey, recounting the educational travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysses, accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, who is revealed early on in the story to be Minerva, goddess of wisdom, in disguise.
- "Les Aventures de Télémaque" is also the title of a 1922 seven-chapter story by Louis Aragon.