Amable Charles Franquet, comte de Franqueville (1 January 1840 – 28 December 1919) was a French conseiller d'État, lawyer, and scholar, known for his work on British institutions.
The only child of the French engineer Alfred Charles Ernest Franquet, comte de Franqueville, he followed in his steps and joined the Conseil d'État, rising to the rank of conseiller d'État.[1]
Franquet was created a hereditary Papal count in 1870 by Pope Pius IX. He was also an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1888 and became a corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1904. In 1901, he received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Glasgow.
He died at the Château de la Muette in 1919.
In 1903, he married Lady Sophia Matilda Selborne, third child of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne.