biography
| name: |
Chénier, Marie Joseph de
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pronunciation:
[shaynyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1764–1811)
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| biography:
| French poet and playwright, born in Istanbul, brother of the playwright André Marie de Chénier. He wrote patriotic songs and hymns such as the ‘Chant du Départ’ and ‘Hymne à la liberté’. His historical and political dramas include Charles IX (1790), where the weak Louis XVI can be recognized. After his disapproval of the violence of the Reign of Terror expressed in Caius Gracchus (1792) and Fénelon (1793) his work was censored, but he later attacked Napoléon in Tibère (1811). |
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