Louis Giry (8 February 1596 – 28 July 1665) was a French lawyer, translator and writer.
Born in Paris in 1595, Louis Giry was a French lawyer and was one of the first members of the Académie française.
[1] He served as the general counsel for the depreciation chamber and the freeholds in the Paris Parliament.
[3] Giry's published works include Les verifons fuivantes, la Pierre de touche which was a translation of Trajano Boccalini's original.
[4] He translated Tertullian's Apology and several other works[2] such as Plato's Crito and Apology[4] and Saint Augustine's La Cite de Dieu.