Fernand Calmettes (1846–1927), in full Charles Édouard Jules Fernand Calmettes, was a French archivist, painter, and man of letters. He was born on 11 October 1846 in Paris and died there, in the fifteenth arrondissement, on 25 April 1927. He graduated as an archiviste paléographe from the École des Chartes in 1869, in the same class as Étienne Charavay, and worked thereafter simultaneously as an archivist-paleographer, a painter, and a writer — a multi-hyphenate career typical of the late nineteenth-century Parisian literary and artistic milieu. He married Marie Marthe Charavay, the sister of his École des Chartes classmate; their son, Pierre Paul Calmettes, followed him into painting and writing and later served as secretary to Anatole France. Calmettes shared studio space on the Boulevard du Montparnasse with the painter Léon Glaize, studios that were evacuated during an 1886 fire at an adjoining construction site. His best-known contribution to literary history is Leconte de Lisle et ses amis: un demi-siècle littéraire (1902), a biographical and literary study of the Parnassian poet and his circle. He also published several novels between 1890 and 1896, among them Brave Fille (1894), which was recognized by the Académie française.
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