Jacques David (actor)
Jacques David may refer to: * Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), French painter * Jacques David (bishop) (1930–2018), French Roman Catholic bishop * Jacques David (court clerk) 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. Jacques was acting court clerk in Montreal by 1718 and took over the registry there in 1719. The ...

Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
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Jacques David (bishop)
Jacques Louis Antoine Marie David (22 December 1930 – 19 December 2018) was a French Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in France and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He served as titular bishop of ''Girba'' and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux, France, from 1981 to 1986. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes, France, from 1986 to 1996. David served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux The Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux (Latin: ''Dioecesis Ebroicensis''; French: ''Diocèse d'Evreux'') is a Roman Catholic diocese in France. The diocese comprises the department of Eure within the Region of Normandy. The diocese is a suffraga ..., France, from 1996 to 2006. Notes 1930 births 2018 deaths Bishops of Évreux 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in France 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in France {{France-RC-bishop-stub ...
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