Joseph Léon Talabot (5 February 1796 – 23 September 1863) was a French engineer, iron master and politician.

[3] Talabot operated the joint-stock Saut-du-Tarn steel making company near Albi, Tarn, which had been founded in the 1820s by capitalists from Toulouse.

[6] In 1846 the Association pour la défense du Travail national was formed to promote protectionist policies.

[7] The council included Antoine Odier (President), Auguste Mimerel (Vice-President), Joseph Périer (Treasurer) and Louis-Martin Lebeuf (Secretary).

[1] In 1849 Talabot merged the Forges et Laminoirs d'Anzin with the nearby Serret, Lelièvre, Dumont et Cie company of Denain to form the Société des hauts-fourneaux et des forges de Denain et Anzin, the largest metallurgical company in the Nord Department.

[10] In 1860 the Inspector-General of Mines, Combes, wrote to the Minister of Commerce that Talabot's Comité des Forges would use whatever threats or arguments they felt likely to be effective in maintaining the price of iron.