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.
Party for the Integral Advancement of the Haitian People
Jacques was born in Port-au-Prince. She was very active in school, as well as caring for four brothers and supervising her parent's business. She attended College Bird with JN Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), but her parents feared that she would get involved in politics and transferred her to the SDA college in Diquini. She later attended Lycee Toussaint Louverture College where she created the first drill team for her school. Jacques was chosen by the Department of Education to sing for the presidential inauguration of "Baby Doc," the only girl among five chosen students. Her drill team later conducted Francois Duvalier ("Papa Doc") to the cemetery in 1971. Though she had intended to study medicine, Jacques left school and worked as private secretary to the Director of the Main Post Office, as well as Assistant Accountant to the President of the SDA Franco-Hatien Union at the Adventist College. She also volunteered at the SDA Clinic in Dinquini, working to help cure tuberculosis. She went to Canada in 1975 to canvas and then studied legal secretarial work in Montreal, graduating in 1977. Jacques then studied nursing at Adventist University in Tennessee and worked on the ship USS Samuel Gumpers stationed in San Diego for the US Navy. Jacques also worked for Kaiser Permanente.