Paul Colomb de Batines

Paul Colomb de Batines (14 November 1811 – 14 January 1855) was an 19th-century French bibliographer, librarian and bibliophile. His name remains attached to his great work, a Bibliografia dantesca, "scholarship treasure" (Paolo Trovato, Un falso visconte, due edizioni elettroniche e altri libri su Dante, 451 via della letteratura, della scienza e dell’arte, issue 5, 2010) which is - still in the early twenty-first century - a valuable tool for any literary history study of Dante's work.

In 1829, Colomb de Batines created the library of Gap.

In the 1840s, he took the title "vicomte de Batines" after he left France and settled in Florence.