Jean Baptiste Cavaignac (1762 - March 24, 1829) was a French politician. 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ...

Biography

Born at Gourdon (Lot département). He was sent by his département as deputy to the Convention, where he associated himself with the party of the Mountain and voted for the death of Louis XVI. Gourdon is a commune of the Lot département, in France. ... Lot is a département in the southwest of France named after the Lot River. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... This article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. ... The Mountain (in French La Montagne) refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group, whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly. ... Louis XVI (August 23, 1754, Versailles – January 21, 1793, Paris) was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French from 1791 to 1793. ...

He was constantly employed on missions in the provinces, and distinguished himself by his rigorous repression of opponents of the French Revolution in the départements of Landes, Basses-Pyrénées and Gers. With his colleague Jacques Pinet (1754-1844) he established at Bayonne a revolutionary tribunal with authority in the neighbouring towns. Charges of cruelty were preferred against him by a local society before the Convention in 1795, but were dismissed. He had represented the Convention in the armies of Brest and of the Eastern Pyrenees in 1793, and in 1795 he was sent to the armies of the Moselle and the Rhine. The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a period in the history of France. ... Landes is a département in southern France. ... Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Gascon: Pirenèus-Atlantics; Basque: Pirinio-Atlantiarrak or Pirinio-Atlantikoak) is a département in the southwest of France which takes its name from the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. ... Gers is a département in the southwest of France named after the Gers River. ... Bayonne. ... The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire) was a court which was instituted in Paris by the Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders, and became one of the most powerful engines of the Terror. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Location within France Brest, at the tip of Brittany Brest is a city in the Bretagne région, north-west France, sous-préfecture of the Finistère département. ... Central Pyrenees The Pyrenees (French: Pyrénées; Spanish: Pirineos; Occitan: Pirenèus or Pirenèas; Catalan Pirineus; Aragonese: Perinés; Basque: Pirinioak) are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany, joining the Rhine river at Koblenz. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...

He filled various minor administrative offices, and in 1806 became an official at Naples in Murat's government. During the Hundred Days he was prefect of the Somme. At the French Restoration he was proscribed as a regicide, and spent the last years of his life at Brussels, where he died. 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Naples panorama Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region and the Province of Naples. ... Joachim Murat, King of Naples, Marshal of France Murat portrait, by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard, c. ... The Hundred Days (French Cent-Jours) or the Waterloo Campaign commonly names the period between 20 March 1815, the date on which Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris after his return from Elba, and 28 June 1815, the date of the restoration of King Louis XVIII. The phrase Cent jours was... Somme is a French département, named after the Somme River, located in the north of France. ... Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. ... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Bold textItalic textBold text // Headline text Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ...

Family

• His eldest son was Eleonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac (1801-1845)
• His second son was General Eugène Cavaignac (1802-1857)
• He was the brother of Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (1773-1855)

Eleonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac (1801 - May 5, 1845), was the eldest son of Jean Baptiste Cavaignac and the brother of General Eugène Cavaignac. ... French general and statesman Louis Eugène Cavaignac Louis Eugène Cavaignac (October 15, 1802 - October 28, 1857), French general, second son of Jean Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Eleonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. ... Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (1773 - 1855) was a French general. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.