Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
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Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France from June to December 1848, during the French Second Republic.
Portrait by Pierre Petit, c. 1850s
Portrait by François-Gabriel Lépaulle, 1848
Cavaignac and his military staff reviewing the troops on 3 September 1848
Cavaignac by Ary Scheffer
French Second Republic
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The French Second Republic, officially the French Republic, was the second republican formation of the government of France. The republic existed from 1848, when the monarchy fell, until its dissoluti
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
…1802 – 28 October 1857) was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France from June to December 1848, during the French Second Republic. Born in Paris to a prominent family, Cavaignac was educated for a military career. Shortly after returning from service in the Morea expedition he…
Revolutionaries storming the Chamber of Deputies on 24 February
The members of the Provisional Government of 1848
Barricades on rue Faubourg-du-Temple, 25 June 1848. These are the first barricades ever photographed
The chamber of the National Assembly of the Second Republic, in 1848