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Returning from Rome around the time of the restoration of the Bourbons and their accompanying foreign conquerors and returned royalists, David d ' Angers would not remain in the neighborhood of the Tuileries, opting instead to travel to London.

Here John Flaxman and others took him to task for the political sins of David the painter, to whom he was erroneously supposed to be related.

With great difficulty he made his way to Paris again, where a comparatively prosperous career opened before him.

His medallions and busts were in much request, as well as orders for monumental works.

One of the most famous of these was that of Gutenberg at Strassburg ; but those he himself valued most were the statue of Barra, a drummer boy who continued to beat his drum until the moment of death in the war in La Vendée, and the monument to the Greek liberator Markos Botsaris.

David's busts and medallions were very numerous, and among his sitters may be found not only the illustrious men and women of France, but many others both of England and Germany countries which he visited professionally in 1827 and 1829.

His medallions number over 500