Antoine Anselme, born in L'Isle-Jourdain in Armagnac on 13 January 1652 and died in his abbey of Saint-Sever on 8 August 1737, was a widely noted French preacher.

[citation needed] In 1681 the French Academy chose him to write the introduction of a Panegyric in praise of Saint Louis and thereafter was heard in all the parishes of the capital.

In one of her letters (8 April 1689) Madame de Sevigne noted his intelligence, his eloquence, his charm, and his devotion and said of him: "There is hardly any other preacher that I think I should prefer than him".

[citation needed] A Member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1710, he died at the Abbey of Saint-Sever that was given to him by Louis XIV in 1699.

[clarification needed] The portrait of Antoine Anselme was painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud around 1719 if the date on the back of the only known copy of the canvas is to be believed.