Louis François L'Héritier

Louis-François L'Héritier, also known under the name L'Héritier de l'Ain (30 May 1788 – 14 July 1852) was a 19th-century French playwright, essayist, novelist and journalist.

He collaborated on various liberal newspapers and wrote several novels with Henri Ducor. He also realized translations such as Histoire des révolutions des Pays-Bas by Friedrich von Schiller (1833) or Les Veillées allemandes, chroniques, contes, traditions et croyances populaires by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (1838).