Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot
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Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʃaʁl sovaʒo]; Paris, 6 November 1781[1] – 30 March 1860)[2] was a French classical violinist and collector of French antiques.
The son of Jean Sauvageot, bourgeois and Françoise-Antoinette Frené, he was single.
Until 1829 he was second violin at the Paris opera and since 1810 clerk at the Direction des Douanes and Honorary Curator of the Imperial Museums.
From 1826-1827, he gathered a very important collection of objects from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - art objects, sculptures, paintings, ivories, musical instruments, etc. - which he donated to the Louvre Museum in 1856 and again in 1860. A room in the Louvre - where he occupied an apartment from 1858 - bears his name.
