ANDRE DE CHENIER

Ghénieb (Andbé de), bom 1762 in Ck>nstantinople, where bis father was consul, died in Paris 1794. In faithful adhérence to the woTship of Oreece, where he was brought ap, Ghénier endeayouzecl to introdace the antique genius in French poetiy. LeaTing the conventional spirit of our dassic poets, he enriched France with a poetry full of charms and originality, and was the promoter of this modem style which was afterwards to be immortalized by Victor Hugo. Filled with indignation at the excesses of the révolution, he was bold enough to openly throw the blâme on them in bis writings, and arraigned on that account before the revolutionaiy tribunal, he was sentenced todeath, and exeoated in..