https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Fénelon
Childhood and education, 1651–75. Fénelon was born on 6 August 1651 at the Château de Fénelon, in Sainte-Mondane, Périgord, Aquitaine, in the Dordogne river valley, the second of the three children of Pons de Salignac, Comte de La Mothe-Fénelon by his wife Louise de La Cropte.Reduced to the status of "impecunious old nobility" by François' time, the La Mothe …