François Jean Léon de Maleville (8 May 1803 – 28 March 1879) was a French politician.

During the French Second Republic he was a representative in the Constituent Assembly in 1848–49, and was Minister of the Interior for a few days in 1848.

François Jean Léon de Maleville was born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, on 8 May 1803.

His maternal uncle François Jean de Preissec (1778-1852) was appointed prefect of Gers in 1828, and Maleville became his personal secretary.

The same year he published anonymously a political comedy, Les tribulations de M. le préfet, scènes électorales,[1] His uncle resigned when the ministry of Jules de Polignac took office, then returned to the administration as prefect of the Gironde department after the July Revolution of 1830.

Léon de Maleville became General Secretary of the Gironde department (Bordeaux) until 1833.

After the fall of the Empire during the Franco-Prussian War, he ran successfully for election to the National Assembly on 8 February 1871.

He joined the Centre gauche parliamentary group and supported the policy of Thiers, his personal friend.

They had one daughter, who married Henri Courtois, and whose children in 1905 obtained the right to call themselves Coutois de Maleville.