Ernest Camille Labrouse ( Fr. Ernest Labrousse ; March 16, 1895 , Barbezio - May 24, 1988 , Paris [1] ) - French historian , representative of the Annals Historical School .
| Ernest Camille Labrus | |
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| Camille-Ernest Labrousse | |
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| Date of Birth | March 16, 1895 |
| Place of Birth | Barbezier |
| Date of death | May 24, 1988 (93 years) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| A country |  |
| Scientific field | story |
| Place of work | Sorbonne |
| Alma mater | |
| supervisor | Francois Simmian |
| Awards and prizes | Baltsan Prize (1979) |
Biography
Born March 16, 1895 in Barbezieu (Charente department), in the family of an artisan. He studied history at the Sorbonne, attending mainly the Alphonse Olara course. He is interested in political economy while writing his dissertation in 1913. After the war, in 1919, he entered the Faculty of Law, since the topic of his dissertation was the revolutionary social legislation of the time of the French Revolution, and he had to change the nature of scientific work. Still, in 1926, he again changes the direction of his work, returning to the problems of economic history . Thus, having passed the way from political economy through the right to history, Ernest Labrus became a historian with an absolutely unique fate.
Labrus his whole life was a staunch and active socialist . Journalist L'Humanite , a member of the Socialist Party since 1916, he joins the PCF after the Congress in Tours in 1920, but returns to the French section of the Second International. A member of the United Socialist Party since the first half of the 1960s, he finally abandons political activity in 1967, without betraying his Marxist and socialist ideals. Labrus can hardly be called a full-fledged member of the “Annals” school, despite the fact that he was obliged to Mark Blok by his appointment as director-researcher of section IV of the Graduate School of Practical Research in 1938.
Having taken up history, Labrus will play a very significant role in French historiography by the fact that - under the influence of François Simmian - decides to devote himself to the study of economic history. Published in 1933, his work "Review of the movement of prices and income in France in the XVIII century" led to an irreversible scientific revolution in this area due to the rigid rules that she introduced into the research methodology. This serves as an example for other areas of historical science ( demography , socio-cultural phenomenon, etc.).
Replacing Mark Blok at the Sorbonne after the war (he then occupied the department of social and economic history), Labrus publishes his most famous work, “The crisis of the French economy at the end of the old order and on the eve of the revolution”, in 1944. In this work, he convincingly shows that price history is inseparable from social history, since "the price of bread is the compass of factories." This work highlights the development of food crises (which was typical of the “old order”), but also explores their impact on industry.
In 1945-1965, a professor, then an honorary professor at the Sorbonne . Until 1965, he headed the Institute of Economic and Social History at the Sorbonne, was chairman of the Society for the History of the Revolution of 1848 , a representative of the Society for Robbieist Studies, chairman of the International Commission on the History of Social Movements and Social Structures.
Bibliography
- Esquisse du mouvement des XVIII et des revenus au XVIII-th siècle (1933)
- La Crise de l'économie française à la fin de l'Ancien Régime et au début de la Révolution , PUF, (1944)
- Histoire économique et sociale de la France , Paris, Puf, 1979 (with Fernand Braudel )
Notes
- Labrus (Labrousse) Ernest Kamil / R. M. Aseinov // The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov . - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.