L. 77. _Et mon frère et Lebrun._ Marie-Joseph Chénier, 1764-1811,
adopted, like André, the military career, which he left after two years,
and wrote tragedies, lyrical poems, epistles and satires, and also a
few prose works, the most esteemed of which is his _Tableau de la
littérature française depuis 1789_, a posthumous work, published in
1815. He was but an indifferent poet.
Pierre-Denis-Écouchard Lebrun, called the French Pindar by his admirers,
1729-1807, a versifier of talent, wrote odes (in which he successively
sang Louis XVI, the Republic, and the Empire), elegies, epistles,
epigrams (in which he really excelled), and a poem on Nature.
L. 78. _fugitif de._ Becq de Fouquières sees a Latinism here, while
quoting two instances from Rousseau and Lebrun. But as Descartes,
Bossuet, and Voltaire might be adduced too (see LITTRÉ), it is difficult
to accept his statement.