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Excerpt from The Life of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, to Which Are Added, the Lives of St. Vincent of Paul, and Henri-Marie De Boudon: A Letter on Antient and Modern Music; And Historical Minutes of the Society of Jesus
Of Anthony de Salignac. From him, Fenelon, the sub ject Of these pages, lineally descended. Bernard, his great grandfather, was sent ambassador by the court of France to queen Elizabeth and history mentions to his honour, that, when he was desired by his court to justify to her the'r'nas'sacre at Paris on St. Bartholomew's day, he refused the unwarrantable commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.