Bernardin married at fifty-five, and became the father of a Paul and a Virginie. On the death of his wife, whom he regarded as a faithful housekeeper, he married again, and his life was divided between the devotion of an old man's love and endless quarrels with his colleagues of the _Institut_. His later writings added nothing to his fame. _La Chaumiere Indienne_--the story of a pariah who learns wisdom from nature and from the heart--has a certain charm, but it lacks the power of the better portions of _Paul et Virginie_. The _Harmonies de la Nature_ is a feeble reflection of the _Etudes_. Chateaubriand, to whom Bernardin was personally known, gave a grudging recognition of the genius of his precursor. Lamartine, in after years, was a more generous disciple. In January 1814 Bernardin died, murmuring the name of God; among the great events of the time his death was almost unnoticed. IV In the second half of the eighteenth century, aided by the labours of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, came a revival of the study of antiquity and of the sentiment for classical art. The Count de Caylus (1692-1765), travelling in Italy and the East with the enthusiasm of an archaeologist, presented in his writings an ideal of beauty and grace which was new to sculptors and painters of the time. The discovery of Pompeii followed, after an interval, the discovery of Herculaneum. The Abbe BARTHELEMY (1716-95) embodied the erudite delights of a lifetime in his _Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece_ (1788), which seemed a revelation of the genius of Hellenism as it existed four centuries prior to the Christian era. It was an ideal Greece--the Greece of Winckelmann and Goethe--unalterably gracious, radiantly calm, which was discovered by the eighteenth century; but it served the imaginative needs of the age. We trace its influence in the harmonious forms of Bernardin's and Chateaubriand's imagining, and in the marbles of Canova. A poet, the offspring of a Greek mother and a French father--Andre Chenier--a latter-day Greek or demi-Greek himself, and yet truly a man of his own century, interpreted this new ideal in literary art. Born at Constantinople in 1762, ANDRE CHENIER was educated in France, travelled in Switzerland and Italy, resided as secretary to the French Ambassador for three weary years in England--land of mists, land of dull aristocrats--returned to France in 1790, ardent in the cause of constitutional freedom, and defended his opinions and his friends as a journalist. The violences of the Revolution drove him into opposition to the Jacobin party. In March 1794 he was arrested; on the 25th July, two days before the overthrow of Robespierre, Andre Chenier's head fell on the scaffold.