text:  The story of Chenier's imprisonment and untimely death as well as the various allusions to the beautiful verses addressed by him to his fellow-prisoner La Jeune Captive to his calm bearing on the scaffold and to the memorable exclamation which was made in the last accents ever uttered by his lips; all these things are doubtless sufficiently familiar to our readers; or if not a single reference either to any of the thousand books describing that most bloody and yet powerfully attractive period of French history--nay the simple turning to the article _Chenier_ in any biographical dictionary will be amply sufficient to recall to the memory the principal facts of the sad story which Pushkin has made the subject of his noble elegy