J'ai essuyé bien des traverses dans ma

Traduction (EN)

"I have weathered many adversities in my life; it has been on the verge of sinking into an abyss several times: yet, nothing has served me more in these circumstances than a kind of sudden energy that was given to me, without my knowing how, and which, despite the weak and melancholic aspects of my nature, raised me above myself at the hour when I should have fallen below."