André Chénier, an Uncommon card

André Marie Chénier was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Arts
ATK: 63
DEF: 40
Power: 103
Wikipedia reads a year: 16,000

Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement.
His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed "crimes against the state".
Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The André Chénier article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, André Chénier (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Didier Descouens, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.