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André Marie de Chénier



Chénier, André Marie de (1762–94), French poet. His work forms a bridge between classicism and romanticism: Le Jeune Captive (1795), Elégies and Bucoliques (1819). He was guillotined during the French Revolution for writing pamphlets against the Reign of Terror.



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