Note 225 — VII PORTRAITS
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The Abbé Claude Fleury (1640-1723) was sous-précepteur to the Dauphin under Bossuet, and to the Duc de Bourgogne under Fénelon. The first volume of his great Histoire ecclésiastique appeared in 1691, and in 1696 he succeeded La Bruyère in the Académie Française.