It was restored to his widow, at the pleading of the poet André Chénier ; " She is old ", he urged, " she is seventy-six, and her husband has left her no heritage save his illustrious name, his virtues and his poverty.

Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art.

Paul Morillot has argued that judged by the usual test of 1820s Romanticism ( love for strange literature of the North, medievalism, novelties and experiments ), Chénier would have been excluded from Romantic circles.

Chénier has also found favor with English-speaking critics ; for instance, his love of nature and of political freedom has been compared to Shelley, and his attraction to Greek art and myth recalls Keats.

Chénier's fate has become the subject of many plays, pictures and poems, notably in the opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano, the epilogue by Sully-Prudhomme, the Stello by Alfred de Vigny, the delicate statue by Puech in the Luxembourg, and the well-known portrait in the centre of the " Last Days of the Terror.

In the UK he has conducted Billy Budd, Andrea Chénier, Un ballo in maschera and Don Carlos for Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Aida, Wozzeck, The Makropulos Case, and ( in a co-production with Scottish Opera ) the UK premières of Schnittke ’ s Life with an Idiot for English National Opera.

The Chevalier de la Luzerne, a friend of the Chénier family, had been appointed ambassador to Britain.

Chénier might have been overlooked but for the well-meant, indignant officiousness of his father.

Andrea Chénier remains popular with audiences, though it is now less frequently performed than it was during the first half of the 20th Century.

He visited Paris in 1788 where he made the acquaintance of Jean-François de La Harpe, André Chénier, Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes and other leading writers of the time.

He was for some time secretary to the duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, the famous philanthropist, and afterwards joined the staff of the Journal de Paris, then managed by Suard, and where he had as colleagues André Chénier and Jean-Antoine Roucher.

Many other critics also wrote about Chénier as modern and proto-Romantic.

Apart from his idylls and his elegies, Chénier also experimented with didactic and philosophic verse, and when he commenced his Hermes in 1783 his ambition was to condense the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot into a long poem somewhat after the manner of Lucretius.

Chénier was one of the last persons executed by Robespierre.

She translated Joseph Méry's André Chénier and Edmond François Valentin About's The King of the Mountains for Emerson's Magazine, which also published her own original articles.

The most prominent verismo baritones included such major singers in Europe and America as the polished Giuseppe De Luca ( the first Sharpless in Madama Butterfly ), Mario Sammarco ( the first Gerard in Andrea Chénier ), Eugenio Giraldoni ( the first Scarpia in Tosca ), Pasquale Amato ( the first Rance in La fanciulla del West ), Riccardo Stracciari ( noted for his richly attractive timbre ) and Domenico Viglione-Borghesi, whose voice was exceeded in size only by that of the lion-voiced Titta Ruffo.

Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full.

Although Otello was his best role, throughout his career, Del Monaco sang a number of other roles with great acclaim, for example: Canio in Pagliacci ( Leoncavallo ), Radames in Aida ( Verdi ), Don Jose in Carmen ( Bizet ), Chenier in Andrea Chénier ( Giordano ), Manrico in Il trovatore ( Verdi ), Samson in Samson and Delilah ( Saint-Saëns ), and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino ( Verdi ).

By 1960 his active repertory included some 30 roles including the title role in Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Rodolfo in Puccini's La bohème, and the title roles in Verdi's Don Carlo and Ernani.

She sang there some 270 times in La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, La Fanciulla del West, Otello, La forza del destino, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, Andrea Chénier, La Gioconda

After the opening of La bohème, the first 1923 / 24 season included productions of Andrea Chénier ( with Benjamino Gigli ), Mefistofele ( again with Gigli ), Tosca ( with Giuseppe de Luca and Martinelli, and Verdi's Rigoletto ( with Queena Mario, de Luca and Gigli ).

Other operas in her repertoire included La bohème, La traviata, Faust, Manon, Andrea Chénier, Thaïs, Les contes d ' Hoffmann ( as the courtesan Giulietta ), Rigoletto, Mefistofele ( as both Margarita and Elena ), Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca, Hérodiade ( as Salomé ), Carmen ( the title role ), Siberia, and Zazà.

Other notable roles in her career included the title role in Aida, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, and Leonora in Il trovatore ( all in New York ), and also Violetta in La traviata and Leonora in La forza del destino ( in Chicago and Buenos Aires ).

* 1947 Chénier, La Pensée française ( Chénier: French Thought )

La Carmagnole is also sung by the chorus in Act III of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier, and it is sung in the closing dialogue of Eugene O ' Neill's play The Iceman Cometh.

Her roles included Adalgisa, Amneris in Aida, Auntie in Peter Grimes, Azucena, Death in Le Rossignol, Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Filippyevna in Eugene Onegin, the First Norn in Götterdämmerung, Frugola in Il Tabarro, Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, the Grandmother in Jenůfa, Leocadia Begbick in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Madelon from Andrea Chénier, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana, Marthe in Faust, Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, the Nurse in Boris Godunov, the Princess in Suor Angelica, Teresa from La Sonnambula, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Zita in Gianni Schicchi among others.

His most famous opera librettos are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier.

Her other roles at the Met during these thirteen years included Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Verdi's Ernani, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Maddalena in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and the title role in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda among others.

At the Metropolitan Opera alone, these are the operas she performed but never recorded commercially: Verdi's Ernani, Macbeth, Il trovatore, Don Carlos ( the Celestial Voice as well as Elizabeth, both in Italian ), and Aida ; Wagner's Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen ( featured roles in all four operas ); Ponchielli's La Gioconda ; Giordano's Andrea Chénier ; and Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot ( as Liù ; she played the title role in Toronto ).

Talma was also a friend of Joseph Chénier, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins and other revolutionists.

The most famous prisoners ( and victims ) included Queen Marie Antoinette, the poet André Chénier, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élisabeth, Madame du Barry and the Girondins, who were condemned by Georges Danton, who was in turn condemned by Robespierre, who was himself condemned and executed in a final bout of bloodletting.

The satire of Marie Joseph Chénier in his famous and witty Discours sur les poèmes descriptifs, brought the vogue of this species of poetry to an end.

* 1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician and patriote ( d. 1838 )

* 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet ( d. 1811 )

* 1811 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet ( b. 1764 )

* 1762 – André Chénier, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* February 11 – Joseph Chénier, French poet ( d. 1811 )

* July 25 – André Chénier, French writer ( executed ) ( b. 1762 )

* October 30 – André Chénier, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* January 10 – Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet ( b. 1764 )

In 1896, Umberto Giordano briefly quoted the anthem in his opera Andrea Chénier.

As the name suggests, they are modelled on the verse of André Chénier.

On 10 October 1970, Laporte was kidnapped from his home on Robitaille Street in Saint-Lambert, Quebec by the Chénier Cell of the FLQ.

Chenier was able to put his principles into practice as a politician, voting for the execution of Louis XVI and many others, perhaps including his brother André Chénier.

He was liked by many composers and was the first to sing the title role in Andrea Chénier.

The new riding of Timmins — Chapleau was represented by Roy's Liberal successor Ray Chénier from 1979 to 1984 and then Aurèle Gervais, a former mayor of Iroquois Falls, who was swept in to office as a PC in the Mulroney landslide of September 1984.

André Marie Chénier ( 30 October 1762 – 25 July 1794 ) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim.

His father, Louis Chénier, a native of Languedoc, after twenty years in the Levant as a cloth-merchant, was appointed to a position equivalent to that of French consul at Constantinople.

Chénier remained unpublished.