-Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918): the different facets of the scholar and his work Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918) graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1863-1866) and obtained his Aggrégation (highest French university teaching degree) (1866); he was a student at the Ecole Française of Athens, where he studied for a thesis in […]
The word section, or rather transect, designates a system for land observation or the representation of a space, along a linear path and following the vertical dimension, aimed at emphasising a superposition, a spatial succession or relations between phenomena: geological section, bio-geographical section or transect. The notion of transect, recently entered into French geographical vocabulary, […]