Alexandre Menjaud (1773–1832): Troubadour Painter of Parisian Life Alexandre Menjaud (French) was born in Paris on November 24, 1768. He was the child of Jean Menjaud (1745–after 1796), advisor to the king, lawyer in Parliament, notary at the Châtelet in Paris from 1770 to 1787, justice of the peace in 1791 and 1792, and Madeleine Dupré (1753–after 1792). His half-brother was Jean Adolphe Menjaud (1795–1864), an actor at the Comédie-Française. Alexandre’s artistic inclinations were nurtured by Baron Regnault at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied Neoclassical painting tech…