Frédéric-Édouard Plessis (February 3, 1851 – January 29, 1942) was a French poet, novelist, journalist and classical philologist.

[8] After his baccalaureate, Plessis began studies in medicine, as his father did, at the University of Paris.

[4] [9] In 1878, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, where he formed friendships with Emmanuel des Essarts and Pierre de Nolhac.

[6] In 1884, he defended his dissertation for a degree of Doctor of the Arts, entitled Études critiques sur Properce et ses élégies.

Included in this dissertation were six photographs of the Codex Neapolitanus of Propertius which he took while he was in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

In 1905, he obtained the position of chair of Latin poetry at Sorbonne University, which he occupied until his retirement, in 1922.