Élisabeth Guibert

Élisabeth Guibert (31 March 1725, Versailles - 1788) was an 18th-century French women writer.

Elisabeth Guibert is the author of several plays dealing with conventional subjects or inspired by classical themes. In addition to her theatre, she also published lots of poems extolling the virtues of a simple life and lamenting the infidelity in the Almanach des Muses 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.

Élisabeth Guibert benefited a pension from Louis XV. In her Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et bibliographique des Françaises et des étrangères naturalisées en France, Fortunée Briquet wrote that her works were "remarquable for their ease and wit."

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