1764-1811.
A younger brother of André Chénier, enjoyed a great reputation as a
dramatic poet and critic. Aside from the _Chant du départ_, which had
a reputation approaching that of the _Marseillaise_, he is hardly to
be considered as a lyric poet.
Works: _Oeuvres complètes_, 8 vols., 1823-1826; _Poésies_, 1844.
37. LE CHANT du DÉPART. 9. De BARRA, DE VIALA; Agricole Viala and
François-Joseph Barra (properly Bara) were both young boys, thirteen
and fourteen years of age, who fell fighting with the revolutionary
armies, the former in the Vendée, the latter near Avignon. To both the
Convention voted the honors of burial in the Pantheon. Their names are
often coupled, as here.