REMOVAL OF THE BODY. 469 whole, many of the bones, and a white silk tunicle and cincture much decayed, and near, the broken fragments of a monumental stone bearing the inscription "HIC JACET FRANCISCUS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE DE FÉNELON, ARCHIEPISCOPUS CAMERAcensis, defUNCTUS DIE SEPTIMA JANUARII 1715; E PRIORI TUMULO TRANSLATUS DIE 28 MARTII 1720." These remains were reverently sealed up, and replaced in a vault, until in the year 12 of the Republic (A.D. 1800), it being discovered that the coffin was suffering from damp, and there being no proper place on the site of the old Cathedral for the preservation of the body, it was removed by the Mayor and Commissary of Police to the Oratory of the "Maison de Vanderburch" until a fitting resting-place should be prepared. There is an arrêt issued 21 Thermidor, An 12, by the Préfet of the Department du Nord, in consequence of the Emperor's orders that "a monument or mausoleum be erected to receive the ashes of the immortal Fénelon," to which they were to be transferred in due time. It does not seem as if this had been carried out, as the existing monument to Fénelon is in the new Cathedral (a poor modern church), of the date of 1825. But the noblest monument to Fénelon's memory will ever be the veneration and affection felt for him by the whole of Christ's Church, and the gratitude of many souls helped on their heavenward journey by his graceful, albeit stringent words. "How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!" (Wisd. v. 5.) INDEX. ACADÉMIE Française, Fénelon chosen Aguesseau, D', 141, 180, 210, 240, 247. Albani, Cardinal, 222, 243. Albert, Chevalier de, death of, 307. Assembly of Clergy at Saint Ger- BEAUMONT, De, 40, 193, 287, 465, 440, 444, 45I. 173, 175, 179, 233, 306, 320, 321, 451. Berri, Duc de, 72. Bossuet, 15, 84, 101, 105, 109, 133, Bouillon, Cardinal de, 182, 208, 225. Bourgogne, Duc de, childish charac- ter, 45; grief at Fénelon's exile, 421. Bretagne, Duc de, death of, 414. Brief of Condemnation issued, 225; CAMBRAI, appointment to, 105; fire 452; character of his sons, 436. Chevreuse, Duc de, 33, 138, 151, FANTASQUE, le, 50. 19. Fénelon, Archbishop, portrait by Saint Simon, 42, 276; by Fleury, 15, 25, 40, 193; character of GAMACHES, Mme. de, letter to, 177. tres, 75, 93, 157, 244, 255. MAINTENON, Mme. de, 33, 75, 141, 148, 165, 166, 197, 254; letters Mandement on his condemnation, 147, 154, 156, 210, 221; censure Montfort, Duc de, killed, 311. NOAILLES, De, Bishop of Châlons, Noailles, De, and Quesnel, 447. OLIER, M., 4, 10. Omer, Saint, Bishop of, 246. PARIS Assembly, 245. Pope Innocent XII., appeal to, 153. Preceptorship, appointment to, 34. QUIETISM, 86; false accusation of, RAMSAI, De, 426; reception at Rancé, De, letter to, 148. Religious Houses, advice to, 298. |