André Chénier (1762-1794) was a French poet who died on the scaffold. The son of a Greek mother and an atheist father, he was inspired by Lucretius' De rerum natura, Holbach's Système de la Nature and d´Alembert's Rêve to write his naturalistic poem Hermès.
Discovered on 15-4-1990 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.