P. Briault

{{Short description|French astronomer}}

Paul Briault was a French astronomer.{{cite journal

| title=Societe Astronomique de France. Seance du Mercredi 16 Juin 1915

| last1=Touchet | first1=Em.

| journal=L'Astronomie | volume=29 | pages=246–261 | year=1915

| bibcode=1915LAstr..29..246T }} See pp. 251–252.

Between 1916 and 1918 he observed the surface features of Mercury and published his maps as one of the first available at the time.

A crater on Mars was named in his honor.{{cite journal | title=The new Martian nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union | display-authors=1 | last1=de Vaucouleurs | first1=G. | last2=Blunck | first2=J. | last3=Davies | first3=M. | last4=Dollfus | first4=A. | last5=Koval | first5=I. K. | last6=Kuiper | first6=G. P. | last7=Masursky | first7=H. | last8=Miyamoto | first8=S. | last9=Moroz | first9=V. I. | last10=Sagan | first10=Carl | last11=Smith | first11=Bradford | journal=Icarus | volume=26 | issue=1 | date=September 1975 | pages=85−98 | doi=10.1016/0019-1035(75)90146-3 | bibcode=1975Icar...26...85D }}