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Buoyant in Amiens
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Picardy's capital city has lost out since Lille bagged the
Eurostar.
But with its idyllic waterways and caf society, it's too good to
miss.
PAUL MANSFIELD goes with the flow
IN a wooden boat I am drifting through a world of leafy green
peace. Willows and ferns overhang the narrow waterway; mysterious
little channels lead off into the foliage; there's no sound but for
birdsong, and the lapping of water against the bow. In the distance
is the outline of one of France's most exquisite cathedrals. The name
of this marvellous place? Les Hortillonages water gardens of Amiens,
capital of Picardy - ...
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French Economic Geography: Introduction to the Special Issue
Magazine article from: Economic Geography
; ...economic geography. Paul Vidal de la Blache, who is regarded as...association. Vidal de la Blache clearly demonstrated...Besides the work of Vidal de la Blache, regional geography...the dominant trends, Paul Claval continued his...
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Visions of la geographie humaine in twentieth-century France.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...proclaimed the message of their master, Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845-1918). The only provincial...role in the publishing history of Vidal and his disciples (Clout 2003b...monographs and textbooks; together with Vidal he conceived the Geographie Universelle...
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GALLIC TRAJECTORIES OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE SELF.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...offers geographers everywhere. Paul Claval, a much-published scholar...France than in the United States. Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918), who derived his...credited with that achievement. Vidal had a compelling people-environment...
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Histoire de la Geographie Francaise de 1870 a nos jours.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Journal
; By PAUL CLAVAL. Paris: Nathan, 1998, 544...Prussian War, through the golden age of Paul Vidal de la Blache and his disciples (who produced the...influences of key personalities, ranging from Vidal, Demangeon and De Martonne to the innovators...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Eugen Adam, painter, 1817; Paul- Vidal de la Blache, geographer, 1845; August Strindberg...Louis-Christophe-Gustave-Paul Dore, artist, 1883; Eugene...Ory, jazz musician, 1973; Paul Bustill Robeson, actor and singer...
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The Taste of Place.(The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...special character of the place where it is grown, raised, or made. She pointed out the role of the geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache, who, in dividing France into regions with different environments, ways of life, and traditions, prepared...
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Books: Books of the century In response to Waterstone's `Books of the Century' survey, we ask 12 eminent, and famously well-read, people to choose their 10 favourite works. (Not one picked The Lord of the Rings)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Arendt The Gulag Archipelago (1973-75) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Principles of Human Geography (1921) by Paul Vidal de la Blache RICHARD DAWKINS Scientist The Jeeves Omnibus (1917-25) by P. G. Wodehouse The Genetical Theory of Natural...
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Review Essay: Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, vol. 2, Tradition.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...as "The Little Red Book" of the nascent Third Republic. Jean-Yves Guiomar, explains how the geography of Paul Vidal de La Blache defined the "plenitude and density of France," while meeting the scientific task for the new Republic of laying...
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Lieu et modernite chez Nishida.
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés
; ...la geographie ayant ete concue comme science des lieux dans l'ecole francaise de geographie, a la suite de Paul Vidal de la Blache. Ce theme du lieu paraitra toutefois suffisamment general pour ne pas, d'emblee, rebuter l'anthropologue...
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Dufour, Philippe, and Nicole Mozet, eds. Balzac geographe: Territoires.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...que "l'ecriture balzacienne [...] a profondement influence les geographes flancophones, a commencer par Paul Vidal de La Blache" (53); "les liens" de Balzac avec la geographie resideraient "dans son gout pour les questions pratiques...
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