Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément (25 December 1742 in Dijon – 3 February 1812 in Paris) was a French writer and translator.
He taught philosophy for some time at his home town's college, then he came to Paris where he was protected by Mably and Voltaire recommended him to La Harpe.
As early as in 1771, he gave a first example of the systematic criticisms that would become so typical of his production by being the only one of his contemporaries to disapprove of abbé Delille's translation of Les Géorgiques.
As a collaborator to Le Journal de Monsieur, Le Journal Français and other periodical collections, he became a critic, systematically glorifying the Ancients and the XVII century's classics, and attacking more and more violently the living authors of that time.
Besides his works as a critic, Clément wrote Les Satires, a translation of La Jérusalem délivrée (by Le Tasse) in verses, and toms V to VII of the translation of Cicero's work published by Pierre-Antoine Guéroult & Desmeuniers (1783-1789) ; he reviewed Antoine Galland's translation of the Arabic tales Les onze journées (1796), translated Les Amours de Leucippe et de Clitophon by Achille Tatius (1800) and he helped abbé de La Porte with his Anecdotes dramatiques.