Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly (1691, Reims – 1750, Paris) was a French philosopher. A member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he founded the ESAD de Reims.
Lévesque de Pouilly studied philosophy and literature in Paris. He was a friend of Nicolas Fréret and Lord Bolingbroke, met Isaac Newton in England, and is likely to have hosted David Hume in Reims.
Works Dissertation sur l'incertitude de l'histoire des premiers siècles de Rome, 1723 Théorie des sentiments agréables, 1736.
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