Louis de Loménie

Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist.

He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works.

He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes.

His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847).

He also wrote La comtesse de Rochefort et ses amis (1871); Esquisses historiques et littéraires (1878); Les Mirabeau (1879).