Patrick Buisson (born 1949 in Paris) is a conservative French historian, journalist and political advisor. He was a journalist for "Minute", "Valeurs Actuelles" and "Le Crapouillot" as well as "La Chaîne Info". He has written several books about Vichy France, the Algerian War and the Indochina War. The founder and co-owner of Publifact, a polling agency, he was a key advisor to former President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2006 to 2012, during which time he surreptitiously recorded private conversations he had with the president. He is the co-presenter of "Historiquement show", a television program on "Histoire", a subsidiary of the TF1 Group, which he chairs.