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3 unusual facts about Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac


Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac

He served as a civil engineer in Angoulême until 1881, when he became master of requests in the Council of State.

He had announced his intention of retiring from political life when he died at his country-seat near Flée (Sarthe) on September 25, 1905.

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However, he also played gruff authoritarian figures, such as Monsieur Cavaignac, who, contrary to history, demands the resignation of those responsible for the Dreyfus coverup, in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), as well as Don Alejandro de la Vega, whose son appears to be a fop but is actually Zorro, in the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power.



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