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| | #REDIRECT [[Marie-Joseph Chénier]] |
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| {{Quote|I pray you do not recall my brother's writings in the Journal de Paris, coming as they did from an intemperate poet's heart. Rather I beg you, if my own humble skills have been even the smallest of aid to our glorious Revolution, spare my brother. In his writings I see burgeoning of France's greatest poet, a light that will shine for all time.|Joseph Chénier in his letter to Robespierre, 1794.|Assassin's Creed: Unity}}
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| '''Marie-Joseph Chénier''' (11 February 1764 – 10 January 1811) was a [[France|French]] poet, dramatist and politician of [[Greece|Greek]] descent, as well as the brother of fellow poet [[André Chénier]].
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| In 1794, André was sentenced to death after opposing [[Jacobins|Jacobin]] leader [[Maximilien de Robespierre]] through his poems. Around June of that year, Joseph wrote a letter to Robespierre in an attempt to save his brother. In it, he wrote that André had been arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, and that his poems in the ''[[Journal de Paris]]'' came from an "intemperate poet's heart". Naming his brother the greatest poet of France, he pleaded with Robespierre to spare him.
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| Despite Joseph's letter, Robespierre was unmoved. On 25 July, André was guillotined.
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| ==Reference==
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| *''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Chénier, Joseph}}
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| [[Category:1764 births]]
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| [[Category:Greeks]]
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| [[Category:Frenchmen]]
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| [[Category:Poets]]
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Revision as of 23:00, 22 May 2015