Faire discipline : la géographie à la Société de Géographie de Paris entre 1800 et 1850

• Main Author: Laura Péaud
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: UMR 245 - CESSMA 2018-09-01
• Series: Carnets de Géographes
• Subjects: history of geography ; France ; discipline ; scientific institutionalisation ; 19th century ; society of geography; Geography
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cdg/1507

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.