[1] She was the daughter of Georges Polier, a colonel in the service of Hanover, and bilingual in French and German.
[2]) Polier collaborated with Joseph de Maimieux to edit various periodicals: the Bibliothèque germanique (1800–0), the Midi industrieux, and the Gazette brittanique.
[1] She later collaborated with her cousin, the Sanskrit manuscript hunter Colonel Antoine de Polier, editing his Mythology of the Hindus for publication after his death.
Colonel Polier, who felt he had lost the ability to express himself easily in French or English as a result of his travels, dictated an autobiographical preface to her.
[4] Sanjay Subrahmanyam has suggested that her lack of knowledge of Indian geography may have introduced inconsistencies into the text.