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Ernest Arrighi de Casanova
Ernest Arrighi de Casanova, 2nd Duke of Padoue (26 September 1814, Paris – 28 March 1888) was a French Bonapartist politician. Son of the 1st Duke of Padoue.
He was a Senator from 1853 to 1870, and was Minister of the Interior in 1859.
During the French Third Republic he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1876 to 1881. He sat with the Appel au peuple parliamentary group.
III Corps that very morning, was led by 31-year-old "Général de Division" Arrighi de Casanova, who had no previous command experience at divisional level. The division was formed of four cuirassier regiments, the 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th, totaling 16 squadrons and almost 2,000 men. Receiving his orders to charge immediately, Arrighi hastily formed his squadrons and led forward Bordessoule's brigade up the slope, but once there, he found himself in the middle of enemy barricades and was, according to his own account