Jean-Batiste Cavaignac ( fr. Jean-Baptiste de Cavaignac ; February 23, 1762 - March 24, 1829 , Brussels ) - French revolutionary .
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Biography
Born in the family of Mayor Gourdon. The brother of Jean Marie Cavaignac .
As a member of the Convention, he joined the Montagnard party, spoke out for the execution of the king, and was one of the distributors of the cult of Reason in the province. He organized a military commission in Bayonne in 1793 - a mobile revolutionary tribunal, for whose actions he was accused of excessive cruelty, but was acquitted. He was the Commissioner of the Convention under the Moselle and the Rhine Army, after which he held several minor posts. During the Hundred Days was a prefect . Exiled from France as a regicide, he died in Brussels .
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- Caveniac, Jean-Baptist // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.