# Sénécal — Sentimental Education character guide

> Sénécal in Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. Sénécal

**First appearance:** 0009-chapter-ii

## Snapshot

A severe republican and mathematics tutor whose rigid principles make him both admirable and faintly terrifying to the men around him.

## Who they are

Sénécal tutors the Arnoux children and lectures anyone within earshot on the coming revolution, refusing the small hypocrisies that keep his friends comfortable. He is austere, humorless, and utterly convinced of his own rectitude—qualities that make him a moral mirror for Frederick's drift and a warning about the violence that can hide inside conviction. His presence threads politics through the novel's private dramas, and his fateful choices later give the story its darkest political turn.

## In the story

### [A Change of Fortune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sentimental_education_se/chapters/a-change-of-fortune)

Referenced by Deslauriers as an example of suffering in society.

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