Paul Vidal de La Blache
Paul Vidal de La Blache (,
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. 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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