"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

Son cœur est un luth suspendu;
Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne.
-De Béranger.

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The picture used is an illustration from "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe", (1884) by Robert Swain Gifford

Well, I definitely got ennuyé wrong. What a word. Even the pronunciation by google translate sounded God-awful. I'd need to hear it in person from a native French speaker to have any chance at it.

To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm

For those who ever played D&D way back in the day (as in, the old Moldvay red Basic book, and the Cook blue Expert book), you will recognize the ending having been used in the module X2, Château d'Amberville, although the male character in the module is named Charles instead of Roderick, while the female retains the name Madeline.