Essai sur l’évolution des rapports entre la Géographie et l’Histoire dans l’œuvre de Paul Vidal de La Blache, André Siegfried et Paul Bois (L’exemple de la province du Maine)

Abstract

From a battered Maine, reduced to the land of chouannerie within a western France itself considered a side-show of French History, to a precise grasp of popular mindsets, fifty-seven years have separated the publishing of Tableau de la géographie de la France (1903) by the geographer Paul Vidal de La Blache from that of Paysans de l’Ouest (1960) by the historian Paul Bois. In between, André Siegfried published his fundamental study Tableau politique de la France de l’Ouest sous la Troisième République (1913), inaugurating electoral sociology. This fertile period made it possible to comprehend the political and social mechanisms operating in Maine and in western France generally which, for too long, have been overlooked or misrepresented.

Keywords

• epistemological relationships between geography
• political sociology and history
• paul vidal de la blache
• andré siegfried
• paul bois
• western france