François Marcellin Bernard-Valville (6 February 1767 – 15 October 1828) was a French playwright and librettist.

The son of a lawyer of Clermont, his studies led him to theater, where he played a few years under the name Bernard-Valville, before trying to playwriting with some success.

But the career of arms attracted him: he accompanied General Decaen to Pondicherry and Mauritius Island when the latter became governor, and continued his career in France until the collapse of the Empire.

[1] The cloudy period following the Hundred Days encouraged him to return to Mauritius where he was appointed deputy headmaster of the Royal College in Port-Louis, where he also taught rhetoric.

[2] Jacques Bernard, also a military (captain of hussards) and poet died in 1842, was his twin brother.