Louis-Eugène Cavaignac

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (; 15 October 1802 in Paris – 28 October 1857) was a French general. He was Chief of the Executive Power between June 1848 to December 1848. He also was Prime Minister of France at the same time.

Cavaignac was notorious for his brutal suppression of a workers’ uprising in 1848, which led to the deaths and executions of thousands of people.Karl Marx An Intellectual Biography By Rolf Hosfeld, 2012, P.76 Ironically, despite his crushing of the worker insurgents, and his hostility to the socialists, Cavaignac nevertheless understood the plight of the workers. Under his government numerous interventionist economic measures and social reforms were carried out.THE FRENCH REPUBLIC UNDER CAVAIGNAC 1848 by Frederick A. de Luna, 1969, PRINCETON  UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, P.253

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