An ancestor of the French divine who under the name of F nelon has made for himself a household name in England as in France, was Bertrand de Salignac, Marquis de la Mothe F nelon, who in 1572, as ambassador for France, was charged to soften as much as he could the resentment of our Queen Elizabeth when news came of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Our F nelon, claimed in brotherhood by Christians of every denomination, was born nearly eighty years...