were too influenced by the preconceptions of Marxist historiography to satisfy him, but he collaborated in their efforts to create a new human history centered in historical demography. In 1948 he chaired a celebrated conference inquiring into "how revolutions are born," focusing on the French revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848, and applying to them his social, economic and political methodology. In 1979 he received the Balzan Prize for History (ex aequo with Giuseppe Tucci). Labrousse had begun as a student of François Simiand. Major works Esquisse du mouvement des prix et des revenus en France au XVIIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Paris:Dalloz) 1932. La Crise de l’économie française à la fin de l'ancien régime et au début de la Révolution (Paris:PUF) 1943, which gained him a chair at the Sorbonne. It was introduced to an English-speaking audience by Shepard B. Clough in a review article "The Crisis in French Economy at the Beginning of the Revolution", The Journal of Economic History (1946) pp 191–96. Histoire économique et sociale de la France, 3 vols. (Paris:PUF) 1970-79. Notes References ADPF, "Histoire et historiens en France depuis 1945" (in French) 1895 births 1988 deaths People from Charente French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians Economic historians 20th-century French male writers Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences