[1][2] Subsequently, the sire of Joux gave this territory to canons regular of Saint-Augustin from Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, living under the rule of Saint Augustine, and dependent on Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.

In order to redeem mistakes, Landry, lord of Joux, donated this uncultivated land covered with forests to Humbert de Scey [fr], an archbishop of Besançon.

[5] Organized by a hermit named Benedict, who had come to retire since the end of the previous century to "a solitude in the snows and among the bears", the religious community of the abbey exercised seigniorial power over this land until the Revolution and contributes greatly to the development of this portion of the Doubs Valley.

Speak Sauget [fr], whose use was still common around 1900 but which has since been lost with only a few people knowing bits of it, differs from other local patois; its roots lie with the first settlers from the canton of Grisons and the Savoyards who accompanied the canons regular of Saint-Augustin.

[6] In 1947, the prefect of the Doubs, Louis Ottaviani, passing through Montbenoît, had lunch at the Hôtel de l'Abbaye, whose boss was Georges Pourchet.

[10] There is a Hymn of the Saugeais [fr], composed in 1910 to music by Théodore Botrel, the Breton bard, by Canon Joseph Bobillier, born in Montbenoît.

[2] In addition, a French stamp of 2,50 francs, including the symbols of Saugeais (medieval coat of arms, Montbenoît abbey, river), was published in 1987.

[11][12] In 2006, to succeed her mother who had died the previous year, Georgette Bertin-Pourchet was elected by thirty grand electors "co-opted in proportion to the number of inhabitants" of the 11 communes.

[13] In 2022, in order to succeed Georgette Bertin-Porchet, of whom he was Prime Minister, Simon Marguet was elected president of the Republic of Saugeais.

A song written in the Langue Saugette, a Franco-Provençal dialect, by Joseph Botillon in 1910 was adopted as the republic's national anthem.