Michel Fourmont (1690–1746) was a French antiquarian and classical scholar, Catholic priest and traveller. A member of the Académie des Inscriptions, he was one of the scholars sent by Louis XV to the eastern Mediterranean to collect inscriptions and manuscripts.[1] He is now best remembered for the destruction of the antiquities in Ancient Sparta and for having presented as genuine some forged inscriptions.
- ^ Susan Bracken; Andrea M. Gáldy; Adriana Turpin (11 September 2013). Collecting East and West. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 19 note 7. ISBN 978-1-4438-5259-3.