Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy [SEP] occupation
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (29 March 1613 – 4 January 1684), a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible, the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as the "Bible de Port-Royal".
Biography.
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy was born in Paris, one of five sons of Huguenot Isaac Le Maistre, and of Catherine Arnauld,
Singlin, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Antoine Le Maistre.
In 1661 he came to Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, and after a month in the Bastille was exiled to his estate of Fossé near Forges-les-Eaux. He later made yearly visits to Paris during the winter months. Apart from his collaboration with de Sacy on a French translation of the Bible, Thomas wrote some hagiographic works and left "Mémoires" (1697–1698 and again 1876–1879), which are highly