Hector Nicolas Alphonse Marie France (1837–1908) was a French writer and soldier, the author of numerous stories of an erotic nature.

He sometimes collaborated with Hugues Rebell (alias Georges Grassal) and Charles Carrington under the collective pseudonym Jean de Villiot.

He returned to France and became a member and an officer of the Paris Commune but was deported in 1872, taking up a secondary career as a writer.

France was by profession a soldier, and wrote ably on military and economic subjects, as John Bull's Army (1887) and several pamphlets evince.

His fictions show a loving care of form and effect, also a delight in dwelling on painful and revolting aspects of passion.