Click on title to link To Wikipedia's entry for the great French political artist, Jacques-Louis David. Like Tallyrand and a few others he seemed to have been able to twist and turn with the winds as they shifted throughout the revolutionary period. The book reviewed on this date by Professor Lynn Hunt, "Politics, Culture,and Class in the French Revolution", has much to say about Citizen David's influence of the political imagery of the times.
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