Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 - 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist.
He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre.
His poems include: Les Rebellions et les apaisements (1871); Poemes de Provence (1874), and La Chanson des enfants (1876), both of which were crowned by the Academy; Miette et Note (1880), a Provencal idyll; Le Livre d'heures de l'amour (1887); J&us (1896). Of his plays the most successful was Le Pere Lebonnard (1890), which was originally produced at the Theatre Libre . Among his other works are the novels, Le Roi de Camargue (1890), L'Ame d'un enfant (1898) and Tatas (1901), Benjamine (1906) and La Venus de Milo (1874); an account of the discovery of the statue from unpublished documents.
He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1909.
