Catherine Laboubée: key obituary facts
Is Catherine Laboubée dead? Yes. Catherine Laboubée died on November 10, 2026, at age 71.
Cause of death: Catherine Laboubée's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Catherine Laboubée known for?
She was a French writer and historian.
More about Catherine Laboubée
Born: 4 May 1955.
Place of birth: Rouen.
Gender: female.
Occupation: historian, biographer.
Nationality: France.
Also known as: Catherine Laboubee.
Occupations: Writer Historian.
Catherine Laboubée, a French historian and writer, died November 10, 2026, aged 71.
Born in Rouen on May 4, 1955, she earned a maîtrise and taught art history at various public schools until 1994. She then turned to historical writing, focusing particularly on biographies of families and communities.
Among the people she wrote about was Suzanne Savale, a French Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor. Laboubée’s work included both individual biographies and collective projects: in 2012, she published the collective volume La Belle et le Magnifique. Other titles associated with her writing include L’Arbre en Marche, published in 2012, Too much class…, published in 2013, and Le Prisonnier de la tour, published in 2016. The chronology of her career spans public-school teaching and a later concentration on history and biography. Her teaching brought art history into her professional life before she shifted her work toward historical subjects; her subsequent publications reflect her interest in documenting family and community histories as well as individual lives. The biography of Savale joined those interests in a subject whose life included both resistance to the German occupation and survival of the Holocaust. Laboubée was 71 when she died.