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INTRODUCTION: France entered the modern era of geography shortly behind Germany. While the German tradition quickly filled with new scholars, the French owe much of their tradition ...
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Paul Vidal de la Blache (Pézenas, 22 January 1845 - Tamaris, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of the modern French geography and also the ...
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Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918), French geographer, who stressed the effects of geography on history. His best known work is Tableau de la géographie de la France, first published in 1903 as an introduction to a history of France by Ernest Lavisse and later published separately. Vidal de la Blache taught at Nancy and Paris, where he founded the periodical Annales de Géographie and in 1894 published the Atlas général: Histoire et géographie.

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