Avenue Emile Sari

Emile Sari is a French politician from Corsica. An ear, nose and throat doctor in Nice, he was elected town councillor of Bastia in 1906 and general councillor in 1912. He succeeded his uncle. From 1919 to 1937, he was mayor of Bastia. This loyal supporter of Adolphe Landry was a senator for Corsica from 1921 to 1937, and he often intervened on budgetary issues. He was at the origin of the Sari law, on the career advantages of civil servants mobilised during the war. Son-in-law of Auguste Gaudin, he was himself the father-in-law of Jean Zuccarelli (former Mayor of Bastia)