Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, duc de Rovigo

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Anne Jean Marie René Savary
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Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary , duc de Rovigo, (born April 26, 1774 in Marcq , Ardennes , † June 2, 1833 in Paris ) was a French Général de division .

Life

Savary joined the army in 1790 and took part as captain in the campaigns on the Rhine under Adam-Philippe de Custine , Jean-Charles Pichegru and Jean-Victor Moreau . He became chief de bataillon and went to Egypt with Louis-Charles-Antoine Desaix . On his return he fought in the battle of Marengo and was appointed commander of the gendarmerie d'élite de la Garde impériale and promoted to général de brigade . From 1802 he headed the secret police of Napoléon Bonaparte and ran the shooting of the Duke of Enghien , so that the use of the court martial for pardon Napoleon could not be presented beforehand.

After attending the battles at Austerlitz and Jena as Général de division , he took over command of the 5th Army Corps in Warsaw in place of Jean Lannes' position, covered Warsaw against the Russians after the Battle of Prussian Eylau and won the victory Ostrolenka (February 16, 1807).

After the battles at Heilsberg and Friedland , he was appointed Duke of Rovigo by Napoleon and soon afterwards became Governor of East Prussia. After the peace of Tilsit he went to Saint Petersburg as envoy . In 1808 he commanded Spain . In 1810 he received the Ministry of Police , which he held until 1814.

Anne Jean Marie René Savary

After Napoleon's return in 1815 he was promoted to peer of France and received supreme command of the gendarmerie, when he wanted to accompany Napoleon to St. Helena , he was captured on the HMS Bellerophon and taken to Malta , from where he, however, in April Escaped to Smyrna in 1816 . In 1817 he went to Austria in order to defend himself against the death sentence pronounced against him for the shooting of the Duke of Enghien on December 25, 1816.

In Graz he was placed under police supervision; however, he was allowed to return to Smyrna in June 1818. In 1819 he voluntarily presented himself to the court in Paris, was acquitted and reinstated in his dignity, but remained without real employment and went to Rome in 1823 .

Ludwig Philipp entrusted him with the supreme command in Algeria on December 1, 1831 , where he conquered Bône and zealously pursued the colonization , but aroused such indignation through his violent procedure that he was recalled in 1833.

Anne Jean Marie Savary died in Paris on June 2, 1833.

Honors

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 14th column (SAVARY).

Fonts

  • Memoirs for the history of the empereur Napoléon . A. Bossange, Paris 1828

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