Le Père de famille (English: The Father of the family) is a 1758 play by Denis Diderot.

Diderot followed this play with a treatise on theatre entitled Discours sur la poésie dramatique.

Sophia Lee (English novelist and dramatist) based her first piece, a three-act drama (produced by George Colman the Elder performed at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780), called The Chapter of Accidents, on Le père de famille.

Against her better judgement, Cécile, Saint-Albin's sister, hides Sophie in their home at the behest of Germeuil, a friend of the family.

When the father discovers the disobedience of his children, he is dismayed; and the entire situation is exacerbated by the ill-intentioned uncle.