Stéphen François Emile Liégeard (29 March 1830 – 29 December 1925) was a French lawyer, administrator, deputy, writer and poet.

[1] His parents were Jean Baptiste Liégeard (1800–87), Mayor of Dijon, and Catherine Emilie Vallow (c. 1810–82).

[4] On 24 March 1867 he was elected deputy as official candidate for the second district of Moselle, replacing Charles de Wendel, who had resigned.

[5] In July 1869 he voted for a subsidy of 100,000 francs to Gustave Lambert to undertake an expedition to the North Pole.

[4] Liégeard returned to practice at the bar in Dijon when the legislation was dissolved on 4 September 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.

[5] Liégeard had a property in Cannes where he spent his winters, and loved the beauty of what he called the "Côte-d'Azur" by analogy with his birthplace, the "Côte-d'Or".

His attempts to be elected to the Academy were rejected in favour of Pierre Loti, Edmond Rostand and Émile Zola.

Construction started in 1895 directed by the architects Louis Perreau and Leprince, a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.