David Papillon (1581–1659) was a French Huguenot architect and military engineer in England.
[1] He was born in France on 14 April 1581 into a Huguenot family, the younger son of Thomas Papillon, captain of the guard and valet-de-chambre to Henri IV of France, and his wife Jeanne Vieue de la Pierre.
As an architect, he is known for Papillon Hall, an octagonal house from 1622 that he built at Lubenham, Leicestershire.
[1] After his death in March 1659, a memorial to Papillon was placed in St Katherine Coleman, London, a church that has also since been demolished.
[1] He was author of a moral and religious essay entitled The Vanity of the Lives and Passions of Men, London, 1651; and left in manuscript an essay on forms of government, Several Political and Military Observations, and a French version of the Comfort to the Afflicted and two other works of the Puritan Robert Bolton.