Louis Rimbault (9 April 1877 – 10 November 1949) was a French individualist anarchist and promoter of simple living and veganism.

[1] He believed that the consumption of meat was murder and that vivisection or any form of violence exerted on animals was a crime against nature.

[1] In 1923, Rimbault announced his idea to create a vegan colony in the Le Néo-Naturien magazine.

His vegan colony known as Terre Libérée was located at a site 10 km west of Tours, near Luynes.

[1][4] The colony consisted of an old farm comprising ten hectares of cultivable land, a farmhouse and its outbuildings.

He gave conferences in Paris and Tours to promote his vegan colony and published ten brochures.

He was left to live at the colony largely in isolation but his support of veganism did not diminish and he continued, until his death in 1949, to welcome boarders and visitors.