Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (Châlons-en-Champagne, 5 April 1606 - Paris, 17 November 1664) was a French translator of the Greek and Latin classics into French and a member of the Académie française.
He converted to Protestantism and traveled to Leiden and then England, before returning to Paris, where he was elected a member of the Academy in 1637, and devoted his life to this translations. He translated many of the works of Julius Caesar, Cicero, Frontinus, Homer, Plutarch, Tacitus, Thucydides and Xenophon, as well as other less known writers, and some modern Spanish works. A malicious remark on one of his translations gave rise to the expression « les belles infidèles ».
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| Preceded by Paul Hay du Chastelet |
Seat 20 Académie française 1665–1693 |
Succeeded by Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy |