René François Gautier (25 April 1851 – 30 August 1936) was a French Bonapartiste politician.

[2] After his father resigned, René-François Gautier was elected in his place for the district of Ruffec on 29 February 1880.

In the Chamber he joined the Appel au peuple parliamentary group, and voted with the conservative minority.

[3] During the session that followed he did not participate in debates but submitted a draft proposal to revise the constitutional laws to allow direct election by universal suffrage of the President and the two Chambers and to let the people to decide by vote on the constitutional laws.

[1] Gautier did not run for reelection until 1910, when he was defeated in the second round by the incumbent Maurice Raynaud(fr).