abstract:Jacques David (c. 1684 – 17 October 1726) was born in France and the first record of his presence in New France is from a wedding contract in 1715.
The paintingsofJacques Louis David, such as the Oath of the Horatii (1770), harkened back to Republican Romeand the virtues of nobility, simplicity, andperfection of form.
The same Jacques-Louis David whose The Death of Marat lionized the Jacobin ideal of the French Revolution went on to glorify imperial rule in The Coronation of Napoleon.
The two men most likely to succeed Blair - Chancellor Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron - will be more similar to French President Jacques Chirac than to Blair in their attitudes toward Israel and the US. This is the case first and foremost because that is what the British people expect of them.