Gustave Saige


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

Early life

Gustave Saige was born on 20 August 1838 in Paris, France. He graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1862, where his classmates included Paul Viollet and Gaston Paris.

Career

Saige served as the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905. It was Saige who discovered that the House of Grimaldi descended from Otto Canella, not Grimaldi I, Lord of Antibes. However, his research was not published under the reign of Charles III, Prince of Monaco. When Albert I, Prince of Monaco came to power in 1889, Saige was able to publish it. By 1895, the Almanach de Gotha had updated its entry on the House of Grimaldi with Otto Canella as its founder.
Additionally, Saige was a member of the Council of State. He was a correspondent to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
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 of Jewish life in Languedoc" prior to the 14th century. Additionally, Saige intended to work on the history of Jews in Toulouse, but he died before he was able to write about it.
Saige was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles.

Personal life

Saige was married.

Death

Saige died on 5 December 1905 in Monaco. He was sixty-seven years old. After his death, he was succeeded as the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco by Léon-Honoré Labande.

As an author

  • Une Alliance défensive entre propriétaires allodiaux au XIIe siècle.
  • Les Juifs du Languedoc antérieurement au XIVe siècle.
  • Honoré II et le palais de Monaco.
  • Les beaux-arts au Palais de Monaco avant la révolution: I. Les princes et le palais depuis le seizième siècle.
  • Les Archives du palais de Monaco et l'intérêt de ses collections pour l'histoire de France.
  • Documents historiques relatifs à la Principauté de Monaco.
  • Abrégé de l'histoire de Monaco à l'usage des écoles de la principauté.
  • La seigneurie de Monaco au milieu du xvie siécle.
  • Monaco, ses origines et son histoire.
  • Glanes d'archives. Les Grimaldi chez eux et en voyage.

As an editor