| Summary: | At the beginning of the 19th century, in France or in Europe, geography does not exist as a discipline in the scientific field. However, some figures start to show geography as a discipline and behave to act, so that geography can compete with natural history or history. This first institutionalisation is based on the foundation of a geographical community, which can meet in places and identify itself in key figures. Despite this desire, the first geographers do not create a real scientific program for geography. Their search for recognition allows them to partially found a discipline, but not a science. Regarding the French situation between 1800 and 1850, this paper aims to question an unknown moment in the history of geography, one of the first rushes for a geographical discipline and examines the epistemological ways of this movement.
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