biography
| name: |
Vidal de La Blache, Paul
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pronunciation:
[vidal duh la blash
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| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1918)
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| biography:
| Geographer, born in Pézenas, S France. Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he taught there (1877–98) before becoming professor of geography at the Sorbonne (1898–1918). He advocated a regional geography based on the intensive study of small physically defined regions such as the ‘pays’ of France, and of the interrelations of people with their environment. The founder of modern French geography, he also founded and edited the journal Annales de Géographie (1891–1918). |
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