Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre (17 May 1924 – 4 January 2020) was a French historian and professor of philosophy.^[1] She served as general commissioner of Guides de France from 1953 to 1979.

Cheroutre was born in 1924. She discovered Scouting just before World War II.

After she obtained a degree in philosophy, Cheroutre briefly worked as a teacher. She then moved to Paris became general commissioner of the Guides de France, summoned by Olave Baden-Powell, where she served from 1953 to 1979.^[2]

In 1968, Cheroutre founded the National Council of Youth and Popular Education Associations (CNAJEP).^[3]

On 21 October 1978, she published an article in Le Monde titled Éducation et mixité, which encouraged more girls to join Scouting.^[4]

Cheroutre served as President of the National Council for Community Life (CNVA) from 1983 to 1993,^[5] and she became a member of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council in 1984.^[6]

Cheroutre obtained a doctorate degree in contemporary history in 2000 at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.^[7]

Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre died on 4 January 2020 in Sète at the age of 95. She is set to be buried at Cimetière Marin, Sète on 8 January.^[8]

• L’essor et l’avenir du bénévolat, facteur d’amélioration de la qualité de la vie, Paris, Direction des journaux officiels (1989)
• Exercice et développement de la vie associative dans le cadre de la loi du 1er juillet 1901 (1993)
• Le scoutisme : quel type d'hommes et quel type de femmes ? : quel type de chrétiens ? (1994)
• Le scoutisme au féminin : histoire des Guides de France de 1923 à 1998 (2002)^[9][10]