Paul Meurice (5 February 1818 – 11 December 1905)[1] was a French novelist and playwright best known for his friendship with Victor Hugo.

In 1836, aged eighteen, he was introduced to Hugo by his friend Auguste Vacquerie, and soon became a devoted follower.

During the twenty years of Hugo's exile, Meurice looked after the financial and literary interests of the proscribed writer.

He meanwhile continued his own literary career, publishing novels, some in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas, for whom he would also ghost-write.

With Vacquerie, and Victor Hugo's son Charles, Meurice founded the journal Le Rappel in 1869.