Jean Fontaine (2 December 1936 – 1 May 2021) was a French writer, theologian, and missionary.
From 1956 to 1957, he studied theology at Saint-Joseph de Thibar in Tunisia before becoming a teacher in Algeria.
He then took three years of theology courses in Carthage and Arabic studied in Manouba from 1962 to 1964.
From 1968 to 1977, he was a librarian at the Institut des belles lettres arabes [fr] and directed the journal Ibla from 1977 to 1999.
Jean Fontaine died from COVID-19 on 1 May 2021, at the age of 84 in Tunis, Tunisia.