Throughout all his changes, Blok remained a true decadent, if one were to take this word in a large historic sense, in the sense of the contrast between decadent individualism and the individualism of the rising bourgeoisie. ###>A travers tous ces changements, Blok resta un vrai décadent, au sens largement historique de ce terme, au sens où l'individualisme décadent se heurte à l'individualisme de la bourgeoisie ascendante.