Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault (died 2007) was a French historian and archivist,[1] graduated in 1953 from the École Nationale des Chartes.
[2] 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.
She was involved in arranging and describing records series relating to the Malagasy Uprising of 1947 in Madagascar.
[3] She renamed a records series relating to the Insurrection of 1947 which also includes the pre-rebellion period.
[4] Marchand-Thébault published important works of scholarship about slavery in French Guinea during the ancien regime.