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Lucien Febvre  

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  • Lucien Febvre, a historian by training, is a central figure in the history of geography as an advocate of the approach of the geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache, particularly after the latter's death in 1918. Born in Nancy in the Lorraine, Febvre received his doctorate in history at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris in 1911. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Febvre, Lucien (1878–1956)]

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