Cabinet of General Cavaignac
The cabinet of General Cavaignac was the government of France from 28 June 1848 to 20 December 1848. It replaced the Executive Commission of 1848 after the June Days Uprising of 23 June to 26 June 1848. General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802-1857) was given executive power by the National Assembly and headed the government as President of the Council of Ministers.
The government was replaced by the first cabinet of Odilon Barrot on 20 December 1848 after Louis Napoleon had been elected as President.
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Louis Juchault de Lamoricière and Nicolas Changarnier.
French Executive Commission of 1848
The Executive Commission of 1848 was a short-lived government during the French Second Republic, chaired by François Arago, that exercised executive power from 9 May 1848 to 24 June 1848. It succeeded the Provisional Government of 1848 and was in turn replaced by the Cabinet of General Cavaignac.
The members of the Commission acted as joint head of state.
François Arago
The Constituent Assembly of 1848, by Cham
Alphonse de Lamartine
General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac