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Paul Vidal de La Blache

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French geographer

FranceScientistsLived 1845 to 1918 · aged 73
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Paul Vidal de La Blache 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.

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1918Jean Reynaud Prize
1915Charles P. Daly Medal
1912Commander of the Legion of Honour

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Paul Vidal de La Blache 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. 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.

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France
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Lived 1845 to 1918 · aged 73
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