[1] His paternal family was descended from Antoine de Neuville, baron of Magnac in Manche in the 16th century, whose sole granddaughter married Francois de Salignac or Salangac, Baron of Motte-Fénelon, in 1599.
[2] His mother was Françoise Louise Le Pelletier de Montméliand (died 1782).
[2] On 29 October 1747 Fénelon married Marie Charlotte Malon de Bercy (died 1760).
[3] He was a maréchal de camp in 1759, lieutenant general in 1762 and governor of Martinique in 1763.
[5] In addition to his capacity as imperial official, Fénelon upheld the slave system ideologically through his white supremacist writings, stating that The safety of the whites demands that the blacks be kept in the most profound ignorance.