Elisabeth Labrousse (10 January 1914 – 1 February 2000) was a French philosopher, historian, and academic. She became known for her work on Pierre Bayle and the history of French Protestantism.
Elisabeth Goguel was born in Paris on 10 January 1914. She was the daughter of Maurice Goguel, a specialist in early Christianity and professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, and Professor at the Sorbonne. Her siblings included François Goguel, French constitutional expert, and Jean Goguel, geologist.
Labrousse defended her thesis in 1963, under the direction of Henri Gouhier.[1]
Labrousse began her career at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, where she taught history of modern philosophy from 1947 to 1955.[2] A 1952 scholarship winner of Maison Descartes in Amsterdam, she initiated the critical inventory of Bayle's correspondence. She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1955 and continued her university career there until 1979. From 1966 till 1979, she was a lecturer at the 4th section of the École pratique des hautes études.
She died in Nice on 1 February 2000.