SAVARY, ANNE JEAN MARIE RENE, Due de Rovigo, a French gee. and diploma tist, was b. at Marcq, in Ardennes, April 26, 1774, catered the army as a volunteer in 1790, and served with distinction in the army of the Rhine. In 1797 he accompanied Desaix to Egypt as chef d'escadron, and remained under his command as long as that general lived. After the battle of Marengo (1800), Napoleon made him his aid-de-camp and for several years employed him only in political affairs, for which lie showed an admirable capacity. In 1803, he was made gen. of brigade; in 1804. as commandant of the troops stationed at Vincennes, he presided at the execution of the due d'Enghien, an event which he is believed to have unduly hastened; and in the Prussollessian Aus. trian wars of 1806-08, he acquired high military reputation, his victory at Ostrolenka (Feb. 16', 1807) being really a brilliant achievement. Created duke of Rovigo in the beginning of the following year, he was sent to Spain by the emperor, and negotiated the perfidious arrangement by which the Spanish king and his son were kidnapped. In
1810, he replaced Fondle OA minister of police. After the fall of Napoleon, to whom he had always been passionately, and, we may add, unscrupulously- devoted, he wished to accompany him to St. Helena; but he was confined by the British government at Malta for seven months, when he succeeded in making his escape, and getting on board a ship, was landed at Smyrna. After experiencing several vicissitudes, he returned to Paris in 1818, and was reinstated lu his titles and honors. In 1823 he removed to Rome; but at the close of 1831, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the. army of Africa, and during his brief administration of affairs in Algeria, exhibited a splendid energy and generalship. But ill-health forced him to withdraw to France in Mar. 1833, and on June 2d following, he died at Paris. Savory's Memoires (Par. 8 vols.1828) are among the most curious and instructive documents relating to the period of the empire.