* 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( d. 1825 )

* 1974 – David Sommeil, French footballer

* 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author ( d. 2011 )

David G. Chandler ’ s Marlborough as Military Commander and A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe are consistent with regards to French casualty figures i. e., 12, 000 dead and wounded plus some 7, 000 taken prisoner.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

His father, David Ancillon ( 1617 – 1692 ), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin.

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

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.

David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

David attempted to win the Prix de Rome, an art scholarship to the French Academy in Rome, five times.

David was allowed to stay at the French Academy in Rome for an extra year, but after 5 years in Rome, he returned to Paris.

In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly.

In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

Jacques-Louis David was, in his time, regarded as the leading painter in France, and arguably all of Western Europe ; many of the painters honored by the restored Bourbons following the French Revolution had been David's pupils.

David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.

Following World War II, Jacques-Louis David was increasingly regarded as a symbol of French national pride and identity, as well as a vital force in the development of European and French art in the modern era.

* Roberts, Warren, Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution, The University of North Carolina Press ( 1 February 1992 ), ISBN 0-8078-4350-4

* Catherine Cathiard and David Zeitoun, group legal director, Unibail-Rodamco, " The European Company: advantages and opportunities ", DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 ( available in French and English, see External links hereunder ).

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

French scholar André Lemaire has reconstructed a portion of line 31 of the stele as mentioning the " House of David "., The Tel Dan stele ( c. 841 ) tells of the death of a king of Israel, probably Jehoram, at the hands of a king of Aram Damascus.

* 1952 – Anne-Marie David, French singer

Attlee supported Churchill in his continuation of Britain's resistance after the French capitulation in 1940, and proved a loyal ally to Churchill throughout the conflict ; when the war cabinet had voted on whether to negotiate peace terms, Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted in favour of fighting, giving Churchill the majority he needed to continue the war.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

* 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.

* July 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: allied victory under the command of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, against the French at the Battle of Oudenarde.

He was posthumously awarded the Ordre de la Libération by the French government in 1960, one of only two people ( the other being Churchill ) to be awarded the medal after 1946.

To sell his fins in the USA Owen Churchill changed the French De Corlieu's name ( propulseurs ) to " swimfins ", which is still nowadays the current English name.

" In a sentence inspired by a quote of Talleyrand about the Bourbons after the restoration of the French monarchy in 1815, Churchill declared: " He is like the Bourbons, he has learned nothing and forgotten everything.

His personal favorites were the writings of French President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

) Although Churchill had promised the French that the British would cover their escape, on the ground it was the French who held the line while the last remaining British were evacuated.

" However, Churchill insisted on coming back for the French, so the Royal Navy returned on 4 June in an attempt to rescue as many as possible of the French rearguard.

It is uncertain who may have originally composed the melody, but it appears to be well known first as a French folk song called " Marlbrough s ' en va-t-en guerre " (" Marlborough has left for the war ") in the 18th century about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Free French Generals Henri Giraud ( left ) and Charles de Gaulle sit down after shaking hands in the presence of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference, on 14 January 1943.

In July 1940, after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service agency in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion, the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later wrote in his memoirs of the role the Résistance played in the liberation of Brittany, " The French Resistance Movement, which here numbered 30, 000 men, played a notable part, and the peninsula was quickly overrun.

Winston Churchill ordered any ship or boat available, large or small, to pick up the stranded soldiers, and 338, 226 men ( including 123, 000 French soldiers ) were evacuated – the miracle of Dunkirk, as Churchill called it.

The palace's construction was originally intended to be a gift to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough from a grateful nation in return for military triumph against the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill feared that, in German or Italian hands, the ships of the French Navy could be a grave threat to the Allies.

As a last resort, Churchill ordered that French warships were to be destroyed by British attack.