Michel Antoine (28 September 1925, Saarbrücken – 20 February 2015, Paris), former professor at the University of Caen, research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and curator at the Archives nationales, was a noted biographer of Louis XV, and a French historian of the Modern period, specialising in France's role in European political civilisation in the eighteenth century.
[not verified in body] Antoine was a specialist of the French state apparatus and of French and related European political civilization in the eighteenth century.
[citation needed] He was an archivist and paleographer, with professional positions as curator at the Archives nationales,[when?
][citation needed] research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique,[when?
][citation needed] and from 1987, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études.