text: " In justification of the very emphatic tone in which Pushkin has recorded the noble generosity and self-sacrifice which conducted Chenier to the revolutionary scaffold it will be sufficient to quote the words of De la Touche and to refer the reader to Chenier's Iambics which drew down upon his head and with good cause the hatred and suspicion of Robespierre and his subordinate demons:--"Chenier avait merite la haine des factieux