Le procès de Savary, duc de Rovigo
L'innocence héroïque: 27 décembre 1819-Le procès de Savary, duc de Rovigo Gildard Guillaume
Éditeur : QUINT' FEUILLE
Date de publication : 11 avril 2025
Édition : Illustrated
Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée : 260 pages ISBN: 9782379290671
On December 24, 1816, while in exile in the Ottoman Empire, General Anne Jean Marie René Savary, Duke of Rovigo, prosecuted for the crime of treason and participation in the plot that brought Napoleon Bonaparte back to France in 1815, was tried in absentia by a French court martial and sentenced to death. Because he could not bear the idea of being found guilty, because he wanted his innocence to triumph, Savary took the crucial risk of leaving his foreign exile and presenting himself spontaneously to the French authorities to be retried in an adversarial manner. When the accused tried in absentia presents himself to the authorities, the decision, whatever it may be, falls by itself and the individual concerned must be retried. This new judgment was delivered on December 27, 1819. This work describes this second trial in its context, its progress and its outcome, emphasizing the biography of the accused and the political context of the fundamental choice made by him.