Editing François Fénelon (section)

==Early years as a priest, 1675–85==
Around 1675 (when he would have been 24), Fénelon was [[ordained]] as a [[priest]]. He initially dreamed of becoming a missionary to the East, but instead, and at the instigation of friends, he preached in Sulpician parishes and performed routine pastoral work as his reputation for eloquence began to grow.

In early 1679, François Harlay de Champvallon, [[Archbishop of Paris]], selected Fénelon as director of ''Nouvelles-Catholiques'', a community in Paris for young Huguenot girls, who had been removed from their families and were about to join the Church of Rome.<ref>Cardinal de Bausset, ''Histoire de Fénelon, Archevêque de Cambrai'', 3rd ed., I, pp. 45f. (Versailles: Lebel, 1817).</ref> In 1687, he published a pedagogical work, ''Traité de l'éducation des filles'' (''Treatise on the Education of Girls''), which brought him much attention, not only in France, but abroad as well.<ref name=ccel>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/fenelon François Fénelon profile], CCEL.org. Accessed 8 June 2024.</ref>

From 1681 to 1695, Fénelon was prior of the fortified [[monastery]] at [[Carennac]].<ref name="carennac">{{cite book |last1=Ltd, D.K. |title=DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Dordogne, Bordeaux & the Southwest Coast: Dordogne, Bordeaux & the Southwest Coast |date=2012 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited |isbn=9781409384373 |pages=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfsIgDHHbe8C |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref>