Jean Léon Talou (15 August 1835 – 11 January 1900) was a French lawyer and politician who was deputy and then senator for the department of Lot.

He studied law at the faculties of Toulouse and Paris, obtain his license, and purchased the office of advocate at the Cahors civil court.

[1] Talou was involved in politics early in his career, and was strongly opposed to the imperial regime.

In 1886 he was reelected to the General Counsel of Lot, defeated Count Murat the younger.

[1] In the legislative elections of 22 September 1889 Talou defeated the incumbent Count Joachim Joseph André Murat the elder of the Appel au peuple group.