François Fontaine (20 December 1917 – 23 March 1996) was a French civil servant and writer.
Fontaine was long associated with Jean Monnet, with whom he started working in 1945 at the Commissariat général du Plan, and with the early build-up of European institutions.
[1] After Monnet's Memoirs were published, Fontaine moved on to writing successful historical novels.
He won the Prix Méditerranee in 1987 for his book Blandine de Lyon.
[2] His son Pascal (born 1948) also worked with Monnet on historical research in the early 1970s and was involved in the preparation of the Memoirs as well.