Gustave Saige

Gustave Saige
Born	Gustave, Marie, Joseph, Jules Saige August 20, 1838 Paris, France
Died	December 5, 1905 Monaco
Alma mater	École Nationale des Chartes
Occupation	Archivist

Gustave Saige (1838-1905) was a French archivist. He was the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905.

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

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 [study] 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.

Saige was married.

Saige died on December 5, 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.

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