Chenica

A weight of quantity in Persia, of which 64 form 1 Collothun = 1-809 imp. gallon. Chenier, ( sha -ne- a ',) ANDRÉ MARIE DE, a very eminen French poet, B. 1762. After finishing his education he was attached to the French emba y at London, but yielding to his over-ruling love of letters, he devoted himself to the study of Shakspeare and Milton. Soon after the outburst of the Revolution he returned to France, became the friend of Condor cet, and Sieyes, and boldly satirized the Jacobins in his caustic verse. He at last became a suspected person, and was sent to prison, where he wrote his exquisite production La Jeune Captive, inspired by the youth and beauty of his companion in misfortune, Mdile. de Coigny. C. was guillotined, with 44 others, July 25, 1794. Twenty-six years afterwards, his poems appeared for the first time in a collected shape, and were received with a burst of admiration, and there can be no doubt that his influence on modern French poetry has been very decided.