Famous People with Name Savary

Félix Savary            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Félix Savary: was a French astronomer.[1] He studied at the École Polytechnique, where he was later a professor of astronomy. He was a librarian at the Bureau des Longitudes between 1823 and 1829, and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on December 24, 1832.[1]

Jacques Savary            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jacques Savary: was a French economics writer of the 17th century, who wrote The Compleat Merchant (first published in 1675).[1] Savary came from a family of merchants, and made fortune by 1658.[1] Through his relations with Fouquet he was put in charge of collecting revenues for Crown lands.[1

Anne Jean Marie René Savary            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Anne Jean Marie René Savary: French general and diplomat, was born at Marcq in the Ardennes. He was educated at the college of St Louis at Metz and entered the royal army in 1790. His first campaign was that waged by General Custine against the retreating forces of the duke of Brunswick in 1792. He next served in succession under Pichegru and Moreau, and distinguished himself during the skilful retreat of the latter from an untenable position in the heart of Swabia. He became chef d'escadron in 1797, and in 1798 served under General Louis Desaix, in the Egyptian campaign, of which he left an interesting and valuable account.

Alain Savary            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alain Savary: was a French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) and a government minister in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterr

Gilles Savary            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Savary: is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism