ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the years up to 1900, when Geddes was energetically cultivating links between France and Scotland, or more accurately Edinburgh and Paris, and frequently brought together people from both cities, as well as from further afield. It examines his connections to major figures in Parisian public and intellectual life over the last years of the nineteenth century, and the means by which he brought a number of them over to Edinburgh to his 'Summer Meetings'. His activities have passed comparatively unobserved, both from the French and the Scottish side, yet with only a little exaggeration, it can be argued that the Geddes networks were among the most significant and thoroughly integrated of Franco-British contacts at this time. Networks can be professional or personal, formal or informal, goal-directed or recreational. The Geddesian networks in both Scotland and France, were, like their inspirer, of all sorts.
