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Gustave Saige

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Gustave Saige
Born
Gustave, Marie, Joseph, Jules Saige

20 August 1838
Paris, France
Died5 December 1905 (1905-12-06) (aged 67)
Alma materÉcole Nationale des Chartes
OccupationArchivist

Gustave Saige (1838–1905) was a French archivist. He was the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905.

Early life

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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]

Career

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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]

Personal life

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Saige was married.[5]

Death

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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.

Bibliography

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As an author

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  • Une Alliance défensive entre propriétaires allodiaux au XIIe siècle (Paris: A. Franck, 1861).
  • Les Juifs du Languedoc antérieurement au XIVe siècle (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1881).
  • Honoré II et le palais de Monaco (Monaco: Imprimerie du Journal de Monaco, 1883).
  • Les beaux-arts au Palais de Monaco avant la révolution: I. Les princes et le palais depuis le seizième siècle (Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1884).
  • Les Archives du palais de Monaco et l'intérêt de ses collections pour l'histoire de France (Orléans: Imprimerie de P. Girardot, 1888).
  • Documents historiques relatifs à la Principauté de Monaco (Monaco, 1888-1889).
  • Abrégé de l'histoire de Monaco à l'usage des écoles de la principauté (Monaco : Imprimerie de Monaco, 1894).
  • La seigneurie de Monaco au milieu du xvie siécle (Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1896).
  • Monaco, ses origines et son histoire (Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1897).
  • Glanes d'archives. Les Grimaldi chez eux et en voyage (Monaco, 1906).

As an editor

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Gustave Saige (1838-1905)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Moris, Henri (1905). "Gustave Saige". Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 66 (1): 742–745. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e Fouilleron, Thomas (2013). "Français par le livre. Les princes de Monaco et l'incroyable longévité d'une généalogie fabuleuse (XVIIe-XIXe siècle)". Revue historique. 3 (667): 601–636. doi:10.3917/rhis.133.0601. Retrieved December 22, 2015 – via Cairn.info.
  4. ^ Fontaine, Resianne (2011). Studies in the History of Culture and Science: A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. p. 285. ISBN 9789004191235. OCLC 729743875. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Mundy, John Hine (2006). Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 9780754653165. OCLC 57549454. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
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