Jean-Baptiste Augier called Joanny Augier, (3 April 1813[1][2] – 17 February 1855.

[3]) was a 19th-century French playwright and journalist.

A secretary of Lamartine after the French Revolution of 1848 (24 February), an éditor at the Le Pays, his plays were presented, among others, at the Théâtre de la Gaîté and the Théâtre du Gymnase.

Suddenly confined to the Centre hospitalier Saint-Jean-de-Dieu [fr] in Lyon following a fit of madness, he died shortly after on 17 February 1855.

We owe him forty-eight plays shown on Paris and Lyon stages between 1835 and 1852[4] including: