Philippe Labbe

Philippe Labbe SJ (Latin: Philippus Labbeus; 10 July 1607 – 16 or 17 March 1667) was a French Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological questions.

After literary, philosophical and theological studies, he successively taught classes of rhetoric and philosophy.

He expressed his devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary in elegant Latin verse.

Every year witnessed the production of one or more of his works, so that in the field of history Labbe and Denis Pétau have been considered[by whom?]

In 1647 Nicolas Sanson accused the Jesuit Labbe of plagiarizing him in his Pharus Galliae Antiquae; his accusation was published in Sanson's In Pharum Galliae antiquae Philippi L'Abbe disquisitiones (1647–1648).