Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was born into a prosperous French family in Paris on 30 August 1748. When he was about nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him with his well-off architect uncles. They saw to it that he received an excellent education at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris, but he was never a good student-- he had a facial tumor that impeded his speech, and he was always preoccupied with drawing. He covered his notebooks with drawings, and he once said, "I was always hiding behind the instructor's chair, drawing for the duration of the class". Soon, he desired to be a painter, but his uncles and mother wanted him to be an architect. He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher (1703–1770), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative. Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style. Boucher decided that instead of taking over David's tutelage, he would send David to his friend, Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), a painter who embraced the classical reaction to Rococo. There, David attended the Royal Academy, based in what is now the Louvre.
Jérôme David
David was beaten in Langon in the municipal elections of February 1877.
He was reelected as deputy as an official candidate on 18 October 1877.
The Republican majority invalidated this election, but he was reelected on 7 July 1878 and continued to vote with the Bonapartists.
He gave up the political struggle after the death of the Prince Imperial.
He did not defend his seat in the cantonal elections of 1880 or the legislative elections of 1881.
He died on 27 January 1882 in Langon.
His entire fortune was a house valued at 15,000 francs.