ABSTRACT
There occurred a renlarkable fluorescence of geography under the direct guidance of Vidal de la Blache for aperiod of about twenty years, until his death at the beginning of World War I. The tradition he established was vigorously pursued by his immediate successors, notably by Emmanuel de Martonne. No attempt will be made here to list comprehensively the formidable list of his pupils and the works of scholarship they produced, though many of their names appear in these pages. Their weighty contribution to the advancement of knowledge is generally recognized by scholars of all denominations in France. This chapter will be devoted to those followers who became the most distinguished and int1uential protagonists of la tradition vidalienne. They became the leaders of the second generation in the second quarter ofthis century. These men, all ofwhom are now dead, are Emmanuel de Martonne, Albert Demangeon, Raoul Blanchard, Maximilien Sorre, and Henri Baulig. Andre Siegfried must also be considered here. Though he was not strictly speaking a pupil of Vidal de la Blache, his works in political geography reveal tbe influence ofVidal's thinking.
