A French linguist, philologist, man of letters and playwright, Louis Poinsinet de Sivry was also a member of the Société royale des sciences et belles-lettres (Royal Society of sciences and belles-lettres) of Lorraine. He translated Aristophanes’s comedies and Pliny the Elder’s Natural History. De Sivry wrote several theatrical works, including the tragedies Ajax (1762), Briséïs ou la colère d'Achille (Briseis or Achilles’s anger, 1763) and Caton d'Utique (Cato the Younger, 1789), as well as the comedies Le Valet intrigant (The Intriguing Valet), Le Temps et la folie (Time and madness) and Le Maître de guitare (The guitar Master).