Samuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801, Paris - 14 February 1879) was a French journalist. The son of Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), 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

Bibliothèque Mazarine

The Bibliothèque Mazarine is the oldest public library in France.- History :The Bibliothèque Mazarine was initially the personal library of cardinal Mazarin , who was a great bibliophile...

 in 1836 and became its administrator in 1848. He was elected to the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

 on 18 May 1854, and became a senator in 1865.

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• http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Document/StatutConsulter?N=VERESS5-1235680343282&B=1&E=PDF&O=NUMM-39801&ie=.pdf-http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Document/StatutConsulter?N=VERESS5-1235680343269&B=1&E=PDF&O=NUMM-39801&ie=.pdf Article on him in theGrand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse
  Pierre Larousse
  Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.-Early life:Pierre Larousse was born in Toucy, where...
  
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