Raoul Blanchard

Raoul Blanchard ( born September 4, 1877 in Orléans, † March 24, 1965 in Paris) was a French geographer.

Blanchard studied from 1897 geography at the Ecole Normale Superieure with Paul Vidal de la Blache with the Agrégation 1900. Thereafter, he was a teacher at Douai. His dissertation on Flanders, appeared in 1906 (Le Flandre, Armand Collin, Paris), gave him a position at the University of Grenoble, where he became professor in 1913 and the Institute de géographie alpine with its own journal ( Revue de géographie alpine ) founded. In addition to researching the geography of the Alps, he also devoted himself to the French in Canada, especially Quebec, about which he wrote several works. His interest began when he was a professor at Harvard from 1922 to 1936 and from there traveled to Québec regularly. 1937 to 1958 he published his twelve -volume work on the geography of the Alps ( Les alpes occidentales ).

In 1960 he received the Gold Medal of the CNRS. In 1958 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. A mountain in the province of Quebec is named after him.

Works

Raoul Blanchard wrote 290 books and articles on a variety of topics; particularly Flanders, French Alps, Europe, North America and Quebec.

  • La Flandre. Étude de la plaine de géographie flamande, en France, Belgique et Hollande, Armand Colin, Paris, 1906
  • " L' Habitation en Queyras ," La Géographie, 1909
  • " Sur quelques géants américains ," Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris, Paris, 1909.
  • Grenoble, étude de géographie urbaine, Armand Colin, Paris, 1911
  • Rapport général de l'exposition internationale de la houille blanche, Grands établissements de l' imprimerie générale, Grenoble, 1925
  • Les Alpes françaises, Armand Colin, Paris, 1925
  • " Asie occidentale ," Géographie universelle, Paris, 1929
  • "La de Gaspé peninsula ," Revue de Géographie Alpine, Grenoble, 1930
  • "Les Problèmes du Canada français ," Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Paris, 1932
  • " L' Amérique du Nord: États -Unis, Canada et Alaska ", Fayard, Paris, 1933
  • " Géographie de l'industrie ", 1934
  • L' Est du Canada français, Province of Quebec, 2 vol. , Montreal, 1935
  • A geograhpy of Europe, together with Raymond E. Christian, Henry Holt, New York, 1935
  • Grenoble, étude de géographie urbaine, 3e edition, Librairie Didier & Richard, Grenoble, 1935.
  • " Géographie de Québec », Bulletin de la Société de Statistique, Grenoble, 1935.
  • Les Alpes occidentales, 1937; 1958
  • Géographie générale, 1938
  • Le Centre du Canada français, 1947
  • Montréal: esquisse de géographie urbaine, 1947.
  • Le Québec par l'image 1949
  • La Mauricie, 1950
  • Les Alpes et leur destin, Fayard, Paris, 1953
  • L' Ouest du Canada français, 5 vol. , Montreal, 1953-1954.
  • Réflexions sur les hautes valleys alpestres, Grenoble, 1958
  • Le Canada français, 1960-1964
  • Le Canada français, 3e edition, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1970
  • Geograph ( 20th century)
  • University teachers (Grenoble )
  • Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1877
  • Died in 1965
  • Man
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