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Louis-Eugène Cavaignac

1802–1857 · 19th century

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and republican politician. After service in the conquest of Algeria, he became minister of war in 1848 and in June crushed the June Days uprising of Paris workers with great bloodshed. He then headed the executive power until December 1848, when he lost the presidential election to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, and he opposed the coup of 1851.

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
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French Second Republic

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