His father, Claude-Laurent Pivert, desired him to enter the seminary of Saint-Sulpice to become a priest, but Senancour, to avoid a profession for which he had no vocation, instead went on a visit to Switzerland in 1789.
His father, Claude-Laurent Pivert, a "Contrôleur des Rentes" and "Conseiller du Roi", wanted him to enter the seminary of Saint-Sulpice to become a priest. To avoid a profession for which he had no vocation, Senancour instead went on a visit to Switzerland in 1789.