ABSTRACT
There is a saying that every man has two countries, his own and France. Any modern geographer interested in the philosophy and development of his subject must be conscious of a deep debt to the French School of Geography. That debt is immense in almost every branch, but particularly so in the fields of Regional and Human Geography. No country of comparable size, population, university and financial resources has produced such a galaxy of genius as is represented by the names of Vidal de la Blache, Gallois, Brunhes, Demangeon, de Martonne, Blanchard, Baulig, Siegfried, Cholley, Sorre, and many others. By reason of their cohesion and mutual collaboration they have made outstanding contributions, first to the status of the subject as an integrating link between the humanities—especially history, and the natural sciences; secondly, to its consequential acceptance in higher studies as an analytical subject and to the use of geographers in governmental work; thirdly, to the development of the inner framework of the subject by their work in Regional, Human, and Physical Geography.
