page_title: Grave of Jacques-Louis David
section_title: Wife's grave
hierarchical_section_title: Grave of Jacques-Louis David / Wife's grave
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise - Médaille de Jacques-Louis David sur la tombe de son épouse
context_page_description: The Grave of Jacques-Louis David is an obelisque by an unknown artist in honor of the exiled French painter Jacques-Louis David in the Brussels Cemetery.
  It was moved there from its original location after the artist's death on 25 December 1825 where his body had been resting in the old churchyard of the St. Michael and St. Gudula collegiate church of the Leopold Quarter of Brussels while waiting for posthumous repatriation to France. However, as a notable participant of the Reign of Terror, his body was not accepted for repatriation, and the lead-lined oak casket was left where it was. Thanks to an initiative by Jobard, a monument was erected with the text "À Jacques-Louis David restaurateur de l'école moderne de peinture de France ici dessous". In 1882 a grandson requested that the monument be moved to a more prominent location and the body was re-buried at the Mayor's circle in the city cemetery of Evere.
context_section_description: David's wife Marguerite Charlotte Pécoul is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and a medaillon of David in relief has been mounted on her grave, where Joseph Marty claimed his heart is buried, oddly only mentioning that it was "near his wife's body" but without mentioning her name.
caption: Relief of David on wife's grave in Paris
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