Marie François, known as Francis Charmes (21 April 1848, château de Baradel, Aurillac, Cantal – 4 January 1916, Paris) was a French journalist, diplomat, civil servant, politician and academician.

Charmes was educated at Aurillac, and afterwards at the lycées of Clermont-Ferrand and Poitiers, subsequently entering journalism.

He rapidly made a mark as a writer, and in 1872 became editor of the Journal des Débats, where he remained until 1880, returning to it from 1889 to 1907.

Charmes is, however, best known for his connexion with the Revue des Deux Mondes.

He takes a high place among the journalists of the Third Republic, and his articles and studies, both literary and political, in the Journal des Débats and Revue des Deux Mondes were one of the features of French literary history during the last years of the 19th century.