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Louis de Sacy (French pronunciation: [lwi də sasi]; 1654, Paris – 26 October 1727, 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.

Bibliography

• Lettres de Pline le Jeune (1699-1701)
• Traité de l’amitié (1703)
• Traité de la gloire (1715)

References

1. Académie française. "Louis de Sacy".Retrieved 22 March 2017 (in French).
2. Godefroy, Frédéric Eugène (1863). Histoire de la littérature française depuis le xvie sìcle, Vol. 3, p. 49. Gaume frères & J. Duprey (in French)

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