Marie-Félicité Brosset (24 January 1802 – 3 September 1880) was a French historian and scholar who worked mostly in the Russian Empire.

By the time he relocated to Saint Petersburg, of his 47 published works 36 were dedicated to Georgia,[1] an interest he kept up throughout his career.

Marie-Félicité[2] Brosset was born in Paris into the family of a poor merchant, who died a few months after his birth.

His son, Laurent, reported "...after five years of unceasing effort, he suddenly gave up.." and he burned all the material he had created.

[citation needed] Invited to Saint Petersburg in 1837 by the president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Count Sergey Uvarov, Brosset was elected a member a year later.