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abrégé de la Terre Sainte" 1877. M. de Saulcy has been twice married. His second wife, Mdlle. de Billing, a daughter of the well-known diplomatist, was appointed lady of the palace to the Empress. After the capitulation of Sédan (1870), M. de Saulcy followed the Empress to Chislehurst, but he has since returned to France and resumed his labours at the Academy of Inscriptions, where he was nominated a member of the permanent commission of the "Corpus des Inscriptions Sémitiques." He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour, April 26, 1847, a Senator of France, having previously retired from the Artillery with the rank of Major, Nov. 14, 1859, and Commander of the Legion of Honour, Aug. 13, 1862.
SAXE, John Godfrey, LL.D., was born at Highgate, Vermont, June 2, 1816, A.B. (Middlebury College), 1839. From 1843 to 1850 he practised law in Vermont, and from 1850 to 1855 he was editor of the Burlington (Vermont) Sentinel, and was State Attorney in 1851. At one time he was a Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont, but since 1858 he has devoted himself exclusively to literature and lecturing. His first collection of poems was published in 1849, and enlarged editions have appeared every few years since. In addition to the various editions of his collected poems which have appeared, he has published "The Money King," 1859; "Clever Stories of Many Nations," 1863; "Masquerade," 1866; "Fables and Legends of Many Countries," 1872; "Proud Miss McBride," 1873; and "Leisure Day Rhymes," 1875.
SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA, Duke of. (See Ernest II.)
SAY, Jean Baptiste Léon, a French statesman, born at Paris, June 6, 1826, is son of Horace Émile Say, and grandson of Jean Baptiste Say, the celebrated political economist. Following the traditions of his family, he devoted himself to the study of political economy, and for many years he was editor of the Journal des Débats. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Corps Législatif in 1869, but in Feb., 1871, he was returned to the National Assembly, as one of the representatives of the department of the Seine. In June the same year he became Prefect of that department. In Oct., 1871, he came to London, accompanied by M. Vautrain, the president of the Municipal Council of Paris, and presented to the Court of Aldermen at the Guildhall a bronze medal of the Hôtel de Ville, and the large gold medal which was struck in commemoration of the revictualling of Paris by voluntary subscriptions collected in this country. At the same time he on behalf of M. Thiers presented the Lord Mayor with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. He and M. Vautrain were entertained at a public banquet in the Mansion House (Oct. 18). On Dec. 7, 1872, he was made Minister of Finance by M. Thiers, on whose downfall he naturally left office (May 24, 1873). He again accepted the portfolio of Finance in M. Buffet's administration, in March, 1875. Soon afterwards he was elected a Senator for the department of the Seine-et-Oise; his term of office expired in 1882. He retained his portfolio in the Dufaure cabinet of the 10th of May, 1876, and in the Jules Simon cabinet of the 13th of Dec. following, but he retired with the latter May 17, 1877. When a new ministry was formed under the presidency of M. Dufaure in Dec., 1877, M. Léon Say again became Minister of Finance. He presided over the International Monetary Conference held at the Foreign Office, Paris, in Aug., 1878. He retained the position of Minister of Finance in the first cabinet formed by President Grévy. He retired from the Administration, Dec. 17, 1879, with