Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.

Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.

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Lettres Spirituelles, no. 59, cited from Correspondance de Fénelon, archevêque de Cambrai (Paris: Ferra Jeune, 1827) vol. 5, p. 514; translation from Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds.) A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994) vol. 3, p. 405.Œuvres complètes De François de Salignac De La Mothe Fénélon. TOME V Briand 1810 LETTRE CXLII (142) p.106.

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