Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy

Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy

Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
Born 17 October 1801
Paris, France
Died 14 Febryary 1879 (aged 77)
Paris, France
Occupation Journalist

Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801 – 14 February 1879) was a Jewish French journalist.

He was born in Paris, the son of the linguist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), who in 1813 was created a baron. From 1828 to 1877 he was a literary and political contributor to the 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.

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