Resumen de David's Telemachus and Eucharis: Reflections on Love, Learning, and History
David’s Telemachus and Eucharis is traditionally seen as a light mythology. Yet the work invites awareness of the didactic and historical implications of representing Fénelon’s Télémaque, written for Louis XIV’s heir over a century before. Fénelon’s widely read pedagogical text was viewed by the philosophes and other writers as having announced the reforms of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. Produced in exile under the Restoration, David’s Telemachus is the work of a moraliste observing his vulnerable hero between passion and reason, and of an aging painter reflecting on history’s cycles and the slow accumulation of wisdom through experience.
