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  • Cavaignac is Godfroi, elder Brother of Eugene, subsequently

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • Cavaignac, which is the richest and most musical you ever heard, yet distinct, emphatic and impressive. "

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

  • A month later, in the National Assembly, Cavaignac attempted to draw a line under the Dreyfus case.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • A new government with a new war minister, General Jacques Cavaignac, took office.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Within two days, Army Chief of Staff General Boisdeffre resigned, followed by Cavaignac.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Now Cavaignac needed to cover his back, so he asked an officer of the security section to go through the secret Dreyfus file one more time.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Far from drawing a line under the case, Cavaignac gave the affair new publicity.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • The officer verified that the note Cavaignac had shown to the National Assembly was indeed a forgery.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Cavaignac and Cuignet who had themselves made the discovery of the forgery and conducted the examination; still more so among the

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Cavaignac waited until he had mustered all of his troops in Paris, including reinforcements from the National Guard from outside Paris, to march on the barricades rather than take each barricade down as it was being erected.

    5. Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1852 2001

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