STEWART ADDINGTON SAINT-DAVID

'Stewart Addington Saint-David, PhD, FINS' (born Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 1963) is an American teacher and author, as well as a noted musician and composer. He was raised in the United States, but has lived a considerable portion of his life abroad, most notably in France, Italy, and the People's Republic of China.
He has taught both English and French throughout the world, and his many appointments have included positions at the ''Scuola Pontificia Pio IX'', the ''Ordinariato Militare In Italia'', the ''Ministero della Difesa'' in Rome and ''Eurasia University'' in Xi'an, PRC, where he worked under distinguished professors Yu Baozhu and Tan Zhimin. The first fifteen years of his working life were spent as a professional musician, and he has long had an interest in the study and performance of Baroque harpsichord music. In addition, over the course of the past two decades he has undertaken a wide variety of studies in the realms of chivalry and heraldry, as well as in the areas of European and Asian history and Imperial Roman numismatics.
S. A. Saint-David is a descendant of Olivier Daigre, who emigrated to North America from the Charente region of France in 1663, and who is recognised as the original progenitor of a widespread family group. This branch of the family later settled in the region known as Madawaska, in what is now northern Maine, and founded the towns of Daigle and Saint-David, from which latter place its patronymic is derived. During the second half of the 17th century, Olivier Daigre and a number of his male descendants farmed some 2,000 acres in the Acadian region known as the Grand Pré, near the French colonial city formerly known as Port-Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia).[1]
In recognition of his efforts for the preservation of the history of French orders of chivalry and merit, Stewart Addington Saint-David was appointed a ''Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite'' (Knight of the National Order of Merit) on December 31, 2003, by a special decree of President Jacques Chirac of France. [2] Among the fruits of his career in the music industry are two albums of original solo piano pieces, ''In the Palace of Dreams'' (2001) and ''The Ghosts of Saint-Denis'' (2003), as well as ''Tu me vas si bien'' (2000), a collection of original songs in French.[3]
Saint-David is the author of a novel, ''The Citizen Director'', partially inspired by the life and career of the 18th century French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, as well as of a history of modern honorific orders in France, entitled '' [4]. This latter work has recently been donated to the museum of France's Ordre de la Libération (an order of chivalry that honors French heroes of WWII and the Résistance), with its eventual sales going to benefit that institution's general fund.
Stewart Addington Saint-David was named a ''Special Student'' of Harvard Divinity School in 2006, and is currently engaged in academic research in the domain of comparative religion. Among his distinguished professors at Harvard have been M. Shahab Ahmed, Nicola Denzey, Harry Lyn Huff, Helmut Koester, P. Oktor Skjaervo and Tu Wei-ming. Mr. Saint-David holds degrees in English Language and Literature and Arts et Lettres, as well as a research PhD in Modern French Studies. Fluent in French and Italian, he is a member of the American Society of the French Order of Merit and the International Association of Educators for World Peace.
In connection with his current studies at Harvard Divinity School, Stewart Addington Saint-David presented a paper entitled ''Way of the Junzi: The Rôle of Reverence in Confucian Ethics'' at Harvard University's annual Confucian Ethics Conference in the spring of 2007. Conducted under the direction of Tu Wei-ming, one of the world's pre-eminent scholars of Chinese history and culture (and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute), this colloquium explored the many different facets of the Confucian ethical tradition, both in its native China and throughout the modern world.
One Saint-David's historical works, entitled , was published by Editions Elgiad of Boston in February, 2007. In March, 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society, [5] and in April, 2007, published his latest study on French history, .[6] His continuing work in the field of Napoleonic studies was further recognized on the international level with his appointment to the Historic, Artistic and Collections Committees of the Instituto Napoleónico México-Francia in August of 2007.
'Notes:'
Burke's Peerage and Gentry International Armorial Register [1]
http://www.armorial-register.com/arms-us/saint-david-sa-arms.html
Journal Officiel de la République Française [2]
31 décembre, 2003: Décret Spécial du Président de la République
http://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/jahia/Jahia/pid/1
Disques ABS Colombel [3]
http://www.abscolombel.fr
The Cyber Journal of Ex Libris: Armorial Bookplate of Stewart A. Saint-David [4]
http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/submit_13.htm
The International Napoleonic Society [5]
http://www.napoleonicsociety.com
Editions Elgiad: New Releases 2007: Author Profiles [6]
http://www.elgiad.com
'External link:'
Instituto Napoleónico México-Francia: http://www.inmf.org