Clovis Dardentor is an 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, written partly as a travel narrative.

The novel tells the story of two cousins, Jean Taconnat and Marcel Lornans, travelling from Cette, France, to Oran, Algeria, with the purpose of enlisting in the 5th regiment of the Chasseurs D'Afrique.

Sailing to Oran aboard the Argelès, they meet Clovis Dardentor, a wealthy industrialist.

Jean and Marcel, whose desire to travel to Africa arises from their pursuit of financial independence, find out that Clovis —an unmarried man, with no family— has left no heirs to his fortune.

[2] In 2013, three British film-makers were in the development stages of Killing Clovis Dardentor, an adaptation of the book.