title: Gaston Saint-Paul de Sinçay
text: # Gaston Saint-Paul de Sinçay
  
  Adrien Gaston Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay (9 July 1854 – 19 March 1938) was a Belgian industrialist and equestrian. He was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay was born in Angleur on 9 July 1854, into a family with French bourgeois roots. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Paris, graduating in 1879. He married a Russian countess, Hélène Bloudoff; they had a daughter named Marie-Antoinette.
  
  ## Career
  
  Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay joined the Société des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille-Montagne in 1877. He became secretary of the board of directors in 1884, and succeeded his father as managing director in 1890.
  
  Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay was president of the Chambre Française de Commerce et de l'Industrie de Belgique.
  
  ## Equestrian
  
  Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay competed in the equestrian mail coach event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
  
  