Marie-Joseph Chénier

Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier (11 February 1764 – 10 January 1811) was a French poet, dramatist, and politician of Greek descent, as well as the brother of fellow poet André Chénier.
In 1794, André was sentenced to death after opposing the Jacobin leader Maximilien de Robespierre through his poems. That June, Marie-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 as having the makings to be Revolutionary France's greatest poet, he pleaded with Robespierre to spare him. Despite the letter, Robespierre was unmoved, and André was guillotined in late July.Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Supreme Being
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