Charles Cotesworth Pinckney&#x27;s personal copy of, French poet and politician, Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier&#x27;s &quot;Poesies Diverses.&quot; Chenier&#x27;s works include satirical and tragic dramas and many consider him the dominant tragic poet of the revolutionary period. In politics he belonged to the committees of general security and public safety and was also a member of the National Convention where he had voted for the death of Louis XVI. This volume was published in 1818, 7 years after Chenier&#x27;s…