Nicolas-Germain Léonard (16 March 1744 – 26 January 1793) was a poet and one of Guadeloupe's first writers.

[1][2] Léonard was born in Guadeloupe, but spent most of his life in France, travelling back and forth frequently.

[2] His fairly conventional poetry is most interesting today for its "astonishing evidence for the experience of living through revolutionary France during the months after the declaration of the republic and the trials against Louis XVI".

They will come, those Days of Darkness, Where the heavy Finger of Age Will cover the Images of my Spring With the Veil of Death.

The French minister Chauvelin was interested in Léonard's poetry and appointed him chargé d'affaires (diplomat) at Liège.