Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (October 15, 1802 - October 28, 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris.

The 1848 Revolutions and the Second Republic
For a more critical look at Cavaignac's actions from June 23rd to June 26th, one can find documentation in Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy from pages 157 - 159. Cavaignac's actions are described as the inspiration to the later Prussian suppression of the National Assembly in Frankfurt and it supporters.
His son, Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac was a prominent politician.