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The son of a silversmith and furniture maker, Cavelier was born in Paris. He was a student of the sculptors David d'Angers and the painter Paul Delaroche, Cavelier won the Prix de Rome in 1842 with a plaster statue of "Diomedes Entering the Palladium". The young sculptor lived at the Villa Medici from 1843–47.