Louis Marie Raymond Durand (1786–1837) was a French diplomat who served as a consul in Warsaw during the November Uprising.

He was born in Montpellier on 4 November 1786 to a family of Jean-Jacques Durand, a local noble and civil servant, and Marie Pauline de Barbeyrac, daughter of Marquess of Saint-Maurice.

[1] By mid-18th century Raymond Durand, the diplomat's grandfather, was among the richest grain traders in the area and owned a sizeable fleet of merchant vessels.

[1] For this act in 1788 king Louis XVI of France granted him and his descendants with a noble status and a coat of arms depicting a merchant vessel.

[1] During the early stages of the French Revolution, Durand's father was a prominent representative of local Bourgeoisie and was proclaimed the first maire of Montpellier on 25 January 1790.

[1] However, soon afterwards he sided with the Girondists and the victorious Jacobins sentenced him to death for the "crime of federalism" and executed him in Paris on 12 January 1794, during the Reign of Terror.

[2] At the end of 1824 Durand's cousins finally secured him a more prominent position of the French consul in Venice, he was also granted the Légion d'honneur.

[3] During his stay in Poland he befriended many notable people of his epoch, among them Prince Adam Czartoryski, Nicolas Chopin, Philippe Girard and generals Piotr Bontemps and Jan Chrzciciel Mallet.

[4] In April 1830 he intended to return to France to become a member of parliament in the upcoming elections, but eventually he stayed in Warsaw and the events of the July Revolution missed him.

By the spring of the following year he started petitioning his superiors to allow him a six months leave in the south of France, but it was not until 10 November 1835 that he was finally relieved and left for Paris.