Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy


Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy was a French journalist. He was born in Paris, and is son of the linguist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, 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.