Silvestre de Sacy
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Oriental studies
Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies...
. His son, Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy was a French journalist. The son of Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy , he was for 20 years the editor of the Journal des Débats, also contributing critical work to it. He became a curator at the Bibliothèque Mazarine in 1836 and became its administrator in 1848...
, became a journalist.
Silvestre de Sacy was born in Paris to a notary
Civil law notary
Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...
named Abraham Silvestre, of Jewish origin. The additional name of de Sacy was taken by the younger son after a fashion then common with the Parisian bourgeoisie
Bourgeoisie
In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late 18th century and the present day, the bourgeoisie is a social class "characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture." A member of the...
. Sacy's father died when he was seven years old, and he was educated in isolation by his mother.
In 1781 he was appointed councillor in the cour des monnaies
Cour des monnaies
The Cour des monnaies was one of the sovereign courts of Ancien Régime France. It was set up in 1552. It and the other Ancien Régime tribunals were suppressed in 1791 after the French Revolution.- Origins :...
, and was advanced in 1791 to be a commissary-general in the same department.
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