Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Paris-Sorbonne University, which
he chaired from 2003 to 2008, specialist in landscape and wine culture,
Jean-Robert Pitte is a member of the scientific council of
Figaro Histoire.
On the occasion of the bicentenary of the Geographical Society, of which he is the president, he has just published two fascinating books:
What is geography for?
(edited with Perrine Michon, PUF), collection of contributions on the role and future of geography in a fully mapped world, and a comic strip,
L'Incroyable Histoire de la Géographie
(Les Arènes BD), which tells the exceptional story of the explorers, diplomats and academics who
"blackened the white of the maps"
and made generations of French people dream.
THE FIGARO HISTORY.
- How to explain the forbidding view that the French seem to have of geography while history enjoys great popularity?
Jean-Robert…
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