ABSTRACT
Henri Baulig (1877-1962), a boy of humble origins, studied history and geography at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903 under Paul Vidal de la Blache. Encouraged by the latter, Baulig left France in 1904 to spend 6 years working under W.M.Davis at Harvard (see chapter 5). Returning to the Sorbonne in 1911, he began his monumental researches into the denudation chronology of the Central Plateau, although these were soon interrupted by a period at Rennes and service as a private soldier in a non-combatant territorial unit during the four years of the First World War. In 1919 he took up an appointment at the University of Strasbourg and returned to his researches (Juillard and Klein, 1980).
