Sainte-Beuve#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents Sainte-Beuve as an example of the characteristically Catholic sensibility that persists in French thinkers of Celtic origin. Despite his hostility to Jesuits, Sainte-Beuve is described as Jesuitical in his manner as “that amiable and shrewd cicerone of Port-Royal,” illustrating how the French remain attached to religious instincts in ways that seem alien and inaccessible to Northern Protestant sensibilities.