[1] Cavada was born on 24 February 1940 in Épinal, Lorraine, to Spanish parents who disappeared during World War II.

[2] His grandson is named Robin after Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated Israeli prime minister.

[3] Cavada was a member of the former Union for French Democracy, which was part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and a deputy for the south-west of France.

For the 2009 European Parliament election, he was the third member of the list of the presidential majority (UMP/NC/LGM), under the New Centre label.

[6] In 2015 Cavada introduced a proposal to restrict the freedom of panorama in all EU countries[7] indicating that this would limit the impact of "American monopolies such as Facebook and also Wikimedia" and serve to protect "a sector of European culture and creativity".