About Louis de Sacy
Lived 1654 – 1727 (aged 72–73). Louis de Sacy was a French translator, lawyer, writer, philosopher and jurist.
Louis de Sacy (; 1654 in Paris – 26 October 1727 in Paris) was a French author, and lawyer. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1701. De Sacy was particularly known for his elegant translations of Pliny the Younger's Epistulae and Panegyricus Traiani.
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French writer
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Louis de Sacy was born in 1654 in Paris.
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Louis de Sacy died on 26 October 1727 in Paris.
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Louis de Sacy was a translator, lawyer, writer, philosopher and jurist.
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