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CAVAIGNAC, JEAN BAPTISTE (1762–1829)

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CAVAIGNAC, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1762–1829) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at Gourdon (See also:Lot). He was sent by his See also:department as See also:deputy to the See also:Convention, where he associated himself with the party of the See also:Mountain and voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI. He was constantly employed on See also:missions in the provinces, and distinguished himself by his rigorous repression of opponents of the revolution in the departments of See also:Landes, Basses-See also:Pyrenees and See also:Gers. With his colleague Jacques Pinet (1754–1844) he established at See also:Bayonne a revolutionary tribunal with authority in the neighbouring towns. Charges of See also:cruelty were preferred against him by a See also:local society before the Convention in 1795, but were dismissed. He had represented the Convention in the armies of See also:Brest and of the Eastern Pyrenees in 1793, and in 1795 he was sent to the armies of the Moselle and the See also:Rhine. He filled various See also:minor administrative offices, and in 18o6 became an See also:official at See also:Naples in See also:Murat's See also:government. During the See also:Hundred Days he was See also:prefect of the See also:Somme. At the restoration he was proscribed as a See also:regicide, and spent the, last years of his See also:life at See also:Brussels, where he died on the 24th of See also:March 1829. His second son was See also:General See also:Eugene Cavaignac (q.v.). The eldest son, ELEONORE LOUIS GODEFROI CAVAIGNAC (18oI-1845), was, like his See also:father, a republican of the intransigeant type. He was bitterly disappointed at the See also:triumph of the monarchical principle after the revolution of See also:July 183o, in which he had taken See also:part.

He took part in the Parisian risings of See also:

October 1830, 1832 and 1834. On the third occasion he was imprisoned, but escaped to See also:England in 1835. When he returned to See also:France in 1841 he worked on the See also:staff of La Reforme, and carried on an energetic republican propaganda. In 1843 he became See also:president of the Society of the Rights of See also:Man, of which he had been one of the founders in 1832. He died on the 5th of May 1845. The recumbent statue (1847) of Godefroi Cavaignac on his See also:tomb at Montmartre (See also:Paris) is one of the masterpieces of the sculptor See also:Francois See also:Rude. Jean Baptiste's See also:brother, JACQUES-See also:MARIE, VICOMTE CAVAIGNAC (1773–1855), French general, served with distinction in the See also:army under the See also:republic and successive governments. He commanded the See also:cavalry of the XI. See also:corps in the See also:retreat from See also:Moscow, and eventually became Vicomte Cavaignac and inspector-general of cavalry.

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