René Taupin (1905 – 13 February 1981) was a French translator, critic, and academic. He moved to the United States in the 1920s. In 1954, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College. He corresponded with Ezra Pound, and was an associate of Louis Zukofsky with whom he planned to publish a periodical La France en liberté, however these plans never came to fruition.[1] After his retirement he returned to Paris where he spent the last 13 years of his life.
Indiana University's Lilly Library Manuscript Collections has copies of letters to Taupin written by the poet Louis Zukofsky. Taupin was living in New York during that time.[2]
Paul Mariani said about Taupin that he was "a bitter pill for us to swallow sometimes" because he made Americans "look a rather negative lot".[3]