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Gustave Saige | |
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| Born | Gustave, Marie, Joseph, Jules Saige 20 August 1838 Paris, France |
| Died | 5 December 1905 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | École Nationale des Chartes |
| Occupation | Archivist |
Gustave Saige (1838-1905) was a French archivist. He was the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905.
Gustave Saige was born on 20 August 1838 in Paris, France.[1] He graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1862, where his classmates included Paul Viollet and Gaston Paris.[2]
Saige served as the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905.[1][3] It was Saige who discovered that the House of Grimaldi descended from Otto Canella, not Grimaldi I, Lord of Antibes.[3] However, his research was not published under the reign of Charles III, Prince of Monaco.[3] When Albert I, Prince of Monaco came to power in 1889, Saige was able to publish it.[3] By 1895, the Almanach de Gotha had updated its entry on the House of Grimaldi with Otto Canella as its founder.[3]
Additionally, Saige was a member of the Council of State.[1] He was a correspondent to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[1]
Saige was the author of many books about the Languedoc and Monaco. His Les Juifs du Languedoc antérieurement au XIVe siècle is a "classic archival [study] of Jewish life in Languedoc" prior to the 14th century.[4] Additionally, Saige intended to work on the history of Jews in Toulouse, but he died before he was able to write about it.[5]
Saige was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles.[2]
Saige was married.[5]
Saige died on 5 December 1905 in Monaco.[1][2] He was sixty-seven years old.[2] After his death, he was succeeded as the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco by Léon-Honoré Labande.
