Louis Gaspard Amédée, baron Girod de l'Ain (18 October 1781 – 27 December 1847) was a French lawyer and politician who became Minister of Public Education and Religious Affairs in 1832.

Louis Gaspard Amédée baron Girod de l'Ain was born in Gex, Ain, on 18 October 1781.

[4] Amédée Girod de l'Ain studied law, and pleaded his first case at the age of seventeen in the Court of Cassation.

Around this time he married Mlle Sivard de Beaulieu, grandniece of the prince Lebrun, Duke of Plaisance.

[3] Amédée Girod de l'Ain was in Paris at the time of the July Revolution, and strongly supported the assumption of power by Louis Philippe I.

[3] He tried to ban meetings of the Society of Friends of the People and other political associations, but was not seen as strong enough by the government and in November 1830 was replaced as head of the police by Achille Libéral Treilhard.

On 11 October 1832 Girod de l'Ain was made a peer of France and was appointed President of the Council of State.

[3] He held this position until his death apart from a short interruption in May 1839 when he was Minister of Justice and Guardian of the Seals in the Interim Cabinet.

In this he attacked the popular societies, and in particular the Société des Droits de l'Homme, and tried to show that there had been a grand conspiracy throughout France.