thumb|Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (4 February 1862 in Dijon – 2 April 1942 in Paris) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.
Biography
Estaunié was born on 4 February 1862 in Dijon. His first novels, Un simple and Bonne Dame, published in 1891, were naturalistic works about provincial mores. His next novel, L'Empreinte (1896), a satire of life at a Jesuit college, was based on his education and reflected Estaunié's anticlerical views.
In 1908, his novel La Vie secrète won the Prix Femina.
He was elected to the Académie française on 15 November 1923, taking the chair formerly occupied by Alfred Capus.
Estaunié died on 1 April 1942,