More than a century ago, in 1804, in Letter XC of that series that constitutes the immense monody of his Obermann, Sénancour wrote the words which I have put at the head of this chapter-and of all the spiritual descendants of the patriarchal Rousseau, Sénancour was the most profound and the most intense; of all the men of heart and feeling that France has produced, not excluding Pascal, he was the most tragic.
Honez gero mende bat pasea da, 1804ean, Rousseau patriarkaren seme izpiritualetarik sakonen eta trinkoenak, frantses pentsalaririk tragikoenak, Pascal salbuesteke, Sénancour-ek, bere Obermann-en monodia neurrigabea osatzen duten eskutitzetatik XC.ean, kapitulu honen buruko goiburutzat doazen hitzak idatzi zituen: