Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
Appearance
Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801 – 14 February 1879) was a French journalist.
He was born in Paris, the son of Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838). He was from 1828 to 1877 a literary and political contributor to Journal des Débats. He became a curator at the Bibliothèque Mazarine in 1836 and became its administrator in 1848. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 May 1854, and became a senator in 1865.
External links
- Académie française ;
- [1]-[2] Article on him in theGrand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse.