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'Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel', (19 November 1819 - 26 January 1904) was a French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the President of France.
His works include: ''Études sur Aristophane'' (1867), ''Le Romantisme des classiques'' (1882), and the controversial ''Catholicisme et socialisme'' (1850). As a result, Napoleon III forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime member of the French senate.
A street bearing his name is located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champ de Mars.