Chenier, Marie

JOSEPH DE, & French poet, brother of the preceding, B. 1764, at Constantinople, where his father was attached to the French emba y. His principal works are, the two dramas Charles IX., and Henri VIII., and his Tableau hist or i que de l'état et des progrès de ia litérature Française depuis 1789, published in 1808. He is also the author of the Chant du Depart, which, next to the Marseillaise, is the most celebrated lyric of the revolutionary period. D. 1811. Chenille, (she-nel',) n. [Fr., a caterpillar.] Silk or worsted cord woven in tufts, and used as a trimming for ladies' dre es. Che'noa, in Illinois , a post-village and township of McLean co., 49 m. E. of Peoria. pop . 2,351. Chenonceaux, (shay-non-so,) in France. See BLERÉ. Chenook', or CHINOOK CITY, in Washington , a post village of Waukiakum co., on Columbia river, 35 m. E. by S. of Pacific City.