Both an author, typographer, or bookbinder, Castaing who by profession was collector of the taille in his hometown, is the author of several plays printed by himself in his print shop.
This collection, whose plays have been described as "as bad as misprinted", has no other merit than its rarity.
The author says ingenuously in his preface that by printing 30 copies of his theater, "he had no other purpose than to distract himself, without the annoyance to bother over thirty people".
The local historian Léon de La Sicotière had his complete theatrical and poetic productions, printed to a very small number of copies in his rich library.
Founder of the Alençonnaise Masonic lodge ("Saint-Louis-des-Cœurs-Zélés"), in 1752, he represented the masonry from Orne at the creation of the Grand Orient de France in 1773.