He participated in a literary circle around Jean Voyer and frequented the jurist Gilles Bourdin (Larivey would write 2 sonnets to his memory) and met there the dramatists Guillaume Le Breton and François d'Amboise.
[citation needed] After, he acted as clerk to the chapter of the church of St Etienne at Troyes, and he eventually became a canon.
[citation needed] He has no claim to be the originator of French comedy—the Corrivaux of Jean de la Taille dates from 1562—but Larivey naturalized the Italian comedy of intrigue in France.
[1] Despite closely following his Italian models, he succeeded in conveying a lively spoken language, often full of saucy humor.
Larivey's merit lies in the use of popular language in dialogue, which often rises to real excellence, and was not without influence on Molière and Regnard.
[citation needed] Early in his career, Larivey worked as a translator of other Italian works, including The Facetious Nights of Straparola (Facétieuses Nuits, 1573) of Straparole (Giovanni Francesco Straparola),[1] the Philosophie fabuleuse (1577), the Philosophie (1581) of Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), and The Discourses of Capelloni (1595).