François-Louis Closon , born with Marseilles the June 18th 1910 and died in Paris in 1998, is a resistant and senior official French.

Lawyer of formation, François-Louis Closon takes part in his youth in movement of Christian democratic tendency. In 1938, it carries out a training course with the the United States, where it learns the defeat from 1940. It joined the gaullists with London. It is very active within the Résistance. It contributes to the bringing together between interior resistance and external resistance. It is named in September 1944 regional Commissaire of the Republic for the Northern and the Pas-de-Calais, then directing of the INSEE which succeeds the National service of the statistics set up by the Vichy government. It will remain it of 1946 until in 1961.

He writes on this subject that France obtains one finally apparatus of demographic and social information in conformity with its needs (...) work will be long-term, because all is to be made or almost.