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Gabriel Jacques De Salignac Fenelon, marquis de la Mothe, a French soldier and diplomatist, nephew of the preceding, born in 1688, killed in battle, Oct, 11, 1746. In 1724 he was appointed ambassador to Holland, and in 1728 represented France at the congress of Soissons. In 1733 he negotiated a treaty of neutrality with the states of Holland. In 1738 he was made lieutenant general, and served under Marshal Saxe. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Raucoux. He wrote Memoires diplomatiques, and published the first complete edition of Les aventures de Telemaque, with a dedicatory epistle (2 vols., 1717).
 
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