François Michel Chrétien Deschamps

François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps (1683 near Troyes – 10 November 1747, Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.

A cavalry lieutenant, later employed in finance, Deschamps wrote several tragedies, of which one, Caton d’Utique (1715), was successful; the others, Antiochus et Cléopâtre (1717), Artaxerxès (1735), Méduse (1739) weren't.

We also owe Deschamps Recherches sur le théâtre français (1735, 3 vol. in-8°).