André Jardin (1912–1996) was a French biographer and a historian, best known for his studies of Alexis de Tocqueville and the 18th century French history. His biography of 1984, Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville: 1805–1858, translated into English as Tocqueville: A Biography in 1988 by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway—was acclaimed as the definitive account of the life and career of the author of Democracy in America.