François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier, also called François de Vaux de Foletier, (22 June 1893 – 17 February 1988) was a 20th-century French archivist and historian, a specialist of the history of the Romani people in Europe.
[1] A student at the École Nationale des Chartes,[1] Vaux de Foletier graduated as archivist-palaeographer in 1917 with a thesis about Jacques Ricard de Genouillac [fr], master of the French artillery.
In 1955, he was among the founders of the journal Études tsiganes [fr].
Henriette Asséo [fr] dedicated him her book Les Tsiganes — une destinée européenne, the 218th title published in 1994 by the Éditions Gallimard in the series "Découvertes Gallimard, Histoire", ISBN 2-07-053156-2.
Vaux de Foletier wrote over two hundred articles, reports, bibliographical entries in the journal Études tsiganes and the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society.