Michel Labrousse (25 December 1912,
Brive-la-Gaillarde
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– 1988) was a 20th-century French historian.
A student at the
École normale supérieure
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in Paris from 1931 to 1935, Michel Labrousse obtained there his
agrégation
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of history and geography. He was a member of the
École française de Rome from 1936 to 1938, then a teacher in a high school in
Bordeaux
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until the breakup of World War II. Drafted as
Intelligence assessment
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officer, he was captured June 22, 1940, and was interned in Germany. He was a professor in the camp captivity University before being delivered and returned to France in 1945.
He then became professor of
ancient
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and
Roman history at the Faculty of Letters of
Toulouse
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. He defended two thesis at the
Sorbonne in 1969 and then became a doctor-es-lettres.
In addition to his teaching activities, he was also interested in archeology. He was Director of historic antiquities of Midi-Pyrénées from 1946 to 1981 and member of the Board of archaeological research. He was president of the "Société archéologique du Midi de la France" from 1958 to 1988. He led excavations on the site of the
Battle of Gergovia and especially in his native region of
Aquitaine
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.
Principal work
* ''Toulouse antique des origines à l'établissement des Wisigoths'', Paris, E. de Boccard, 1968, ''Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, n°112'', 644 p., 54 fig., one map and 9 inset plates.
[A recension of the book can be read in: Durand-Barthez Maurice, ''Michel Labrousse. Toulouse antique, des origines à rétablissement des Wisigoths'', Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1971, vol. 129, n°129-1, (pp. 196-201]
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References
External links
Michel Labrousse. Toulouse antique, des origines à rétablissement des Wisigoths (compte rendu)
on Persée
Michel Labrousse historien
on Bibliothèque de L'École Des Chartes
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1912 births
People from Brive-la-Gaillarde
1988 deaths
École Normale Supérieure alumni
20th-century French historians
French scholars of Roman history