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Savary was born in 1774, at Marcq in the Ardennes.
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Savary was born in 1774, at Marcq in the Ardennes.
He was educated at the college of St Louis at Metz.
Savary joined the army in 1790 and fought in the Rhine campaigns. He was aide-de-camp first to General Louis Desaix de Veygoux in Egypt (1798) and, after Desaix’s death in 1800, to Napoleon Bonaparte. Savary rose swiftly from chief of the gendarmerie d’élite (Napoleon’s personal bodyguard) to general of division (1805).
In 1804 he personally investigated the royalist conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal and Charles Pichegru and supervised the kidnapping from Germany and subsequent execution of the duc d’Enghien, who was suspected of complicity but was, in fact, innocent of involvement. Savary took a notable part in the rout of the Prussians at Jena (1806) and the defeat of the Russians at Ostrołęka in Poland (1807).
After the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) restored peace between France and Russia, Napoleon sent Savary as envoy to St. Petersburg and then to Spain, where he persuaded Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII to submit their rival claims for the throne to Napoleon’s arbitration. Created duc de Rovigo in 1808, he became minister of police two years later. During the Hundred Days in 1815, during which Napoleon attempted to rebuild his empire, Savary was rewarded by being made a peer and first inspector general of the constabulary.
After Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Savary was imprisoned and sentenced to death but managed to escape. He returned to France in 1819 upon reversal of his sentence and was still active in 1832, when he commanded the army in Algeria. His Mémoires, 8 vol. (1828), were published in both French and English.
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