Maurice de Gandillac (14 February 1906 – 18 April 2006) was a French philosopher. He was born in Koléa, French Algeria and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

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He wrote his thesis under Étienne Gilson on the Renaissance philosopher Nicholas of Cusa.^[1] In 1946 he was appointed professor in the history of medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne.^[2] He supervised the doctoral dissertations of numerous students, including Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.^[1]