monograph on the lower Rhône valley. He was an all-rounder in both teaching and research, but his preference was for rural geography. Teaching at the University of Toulouse for a quarter of a century, he pioneered the promotion of geographical research
to the Sorbonne in 1927, Cholley came to adopt a process-orientated approach to geomorphology, advocated a holistic conception of geography and introduced a rudimentary systems approach covering both physical and human components of the discipline