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Paul Vidal de La Blache
French geographer
Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation:[pɔlvidaldəlablaʃ], Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer.
He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
Paul vidal de la blache biography
He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.[1]
Life
Paul Vidal de la Blache was the son of a teacher at the Collège de Pézenas who subsequently became an academic administrator.[2] He was sent to school at the Institution Favard at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris.
Afterward, he attended the École Normale Supérieure. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1863 at the age of eighteen and received the agrégation (certification) in history and