Biography ; French school ; History of geography ; Practice of geography ; Twentieth Century
deeply involved in spatial planning and regional development, and was active in the International Geographical Union. He strove to introduce French geographers to new ideas in the discipline that were developing in anglo-saxon countries. He was a firm
Biography ; French school ; History of geography ; Practice of geography ; Twentieth Century
to do theunconventional. His early death robbed French scholarship of a promising physicalgeographer. Both men participated in interuniversity geographical excursions, andboth taught at the University of Rennes, acquiring varying degrees of expertise