The Prix du Jockey Club, sometimes referred to as the French Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

The format of the race was inspired by the English Derby, and it was named in homage to the Jockey Club based at Newmarket in England.

A substitute race called the Prix de Chantilly was run at Auteuil over 2,600 metres in 1940.

The Prix du Jockey Club was staged at Longchamp in 1941 and 1942, and at Le Tremblay over 2,300 metres in 1943 and 1944.

The present system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the Prix du Jockey Club was classed at the highest level, Group 1.