Sainte-Mondane

Sainte-Mondane is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France; its name in Occitan is Senta Mundana. It lies in the old province of Perigord, in the valley of the Dordogne river. The commune is best known as the place where the theologian and writer Francois Fenelon (1651 to 1715) was born, at the Chateau de Fenelon, on 6 August 1651; the Wikipedia article on the commune lists Fenelon as its notable personality. The Fenelon family was an old and impoverished noble house that had given many bishops to the nearby see of Sarlat, and Fenelon later became Archbishop of Cambrai and tutor to the grandson of Louis XIV, writing The Adventures of Telemachus.