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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 332 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID, See also:TOUSSAINT - See also:BERNARD (1755-1839), See also:French archaeologist and writer on See also:art, was See also:born at See also:Aix, in See also:Provence,.on the loth of See also:August 1755. He was destined for the legal profession, and having gone in 1775 to See also:Paris to See also:complete his legal See also:education, he acquired there a See also:taste for art which influenced his whole future career, and he went to See also:Italy, where he continued his art studies. He soon returned, however, to his native See also:village, and followed for some See also:time the profession of an See also:advocate; but in 1787 he succeeded his See also:uncle See also:Antoine David as printer to the See also:parlement. He was elected See also:mayor of Aix in 1791; and although he speedily resigned his See also:office, he was in 1793 threatened with See also:arrest, and had for some time to adopt a vagrant See also:life. When danger was past he returned to Aix, sold his See also:printing business, and engaged in See also:general commercial ,pursuits; but he was not See also:long in renouncing these also, in See also:order to devote himself exclusively to literature and art. From 1809 to 1814, under the See also:Empire, he represented his See also:department in the See also:Lower See also:House (See also:Corps legislatif); in 1814 he voted for the downfall of See also:Napoleon; in 1815 he retired into private life, and in 1816 he was elected a member of the See also:Institute. He died in Paris on the 2nd of See also:April 1839. Emeric-David was placed in 1825 on the See also:commission appointed to continue L'Histoire litteraire de la See also:France. His See also:principal See also:works are Recherches sur fart statuaire, considers chez See also:les anciens et les modernes (Paris, 18o5), a See also:work which obtained the See also:prize of the Institute; See also:Suite d'etudes calquees et dessinees d'apres cinq tableaux de See also:Raphael (Paris, 1818-1821), in 6 vols. fol.; See also:Jupiter, ou recherches sur ce dieu, sur son culte, &c. (Paris, 1833),2 vols. 8vo, illustrated; and Vulcain (Paris,1837).

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