Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault

{{Short description|French historian and archivist}}

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| name = Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault

| birth_name = Marie-Louise Thébault

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| death_date = 2007

| death_place = Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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| spouse = Claude Marchand

| education = Diplomas d'Archiviste paléographe

| alma_mater = École Nationale des Chartes

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Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault (died 2007) was a French historian and archivist,{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=Chronique de l'École des chartes et des archivistes paléographes|journal=Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes|volume=165|issue=2|pages=637|issn=0373-6237|jstor=43014391|last1=Bercé|first1=Yves-Marie}} graduated in 1953 from the École Nationale des Chartes.{{Cite journal| volume = 97| issue = 4| pages = 397–402| last = Lantier| first = Raymond| title = Palmarès des prix et récompenses décernés en 1953| journal = Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres| access-date = 2019-11-16| date = 1953| url = https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1953_num_97_4_10173}}p.402

Working on the records of French colonies, at Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence (CAOM), she was involved in locating and managing colonial records in French Guinea, Cameroon, and Madagascar.

Marchand-Thébault was involved after 1958 in arranging and describing the archival records related to Madagascar. She managed the archives section of the Office of the High Commissioner of France in Madagascar, while the archives section of the Upper Territory of Madagascar was headed by Jean Valette. She was involved in arranging and describing records series relating to the Malagasy Uprising of 1947 in Madagascar.{{Cite journal|last=Menier|first=Marie-Antoinette|date=1974|title=Carlo Laroche (1907-1973)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1974_num_132_2_460078|journal=Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes|volume=132|issue=2|pages=387–391|access-date=2019-11-16}} She renamed a records series relating to the Insurrection of 1947 which also includes the pre-rebellion period. Originally established by the High Commission under "E" it was renamed "R" by Marchand-Thébault. She also added files that she gathered as part of her tour of local districts.{{Cite journal| issn = 0305-862X| issue = 101| pages = 27–37| last1 = Camara| first1 = Evelyne| last2 = Villon| first2 = Jean| title = Centre des Archives d'outre-Mer à Aix-en-Provence (CAOM) Historique des Archives de Madagascar| journal = African Research & Documentation | date = 2006| volume = 101| doi = 10.1017/S0305862X00017945| s2cid = 160942374| id = {{ProQuest|194648155}}}}

Marchand-Thébault published important works of scholarship about slavery in French Guinea during the ancien regime.{{Cite book|title=General History of the Caribbean: methodology and historiography of the Caribbean Volume 6: General History of the Caribbean|date=1999|publisher=UNESCO|isbn=0333724615|editor-last1=Higman|editor-first1=B.W.|editor-last2=Franklin W.}}{{Cite journal| volume = 165| issue = 2| pages = 635–637| last = Bercé| first = Yves-Marie| title = Line Teisseyre-Sallmann (1948-2007)| journal = Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes| access-date = 2019-11-16| date = 2007| url = https://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_2007_num_165_2_463561}}{{Cite journal| doi = 10.3406/outre.1962.1347| volume = 49| issue = 174| pages = 80–116| last = Tarrade| first = Jean| title = Affranchis et gens de couleur libres à la Guyane à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, d'après les minutes des notaires| journal = Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire| date = 1962}}

In 1976 she was appointed as conservator at the Municipal Archives of Toulouse.{{Cite journal| issn = 0373-6237| volume = 134| issue = 2| pages = 465–475| title = [Chronique de l'École des chartes et des archivistes paléographes]| journal = Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes| date = 1976| jstor = 42959653}}