Geographical Society
| Geographical Society | |
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 Logo of the Geographical Society | |
| Foundation | 15 December 1821 |
| Discipline | Geography |
| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Founder | Marquis Pierre-Simon Laplace (first president) |
| President | Jean-Robert Pitte |
| Secretary General | Michel Dagnaud |
| Publications | Geography |
| Website | www.socgeo.org |
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The Geographic Society is a learned society French. It says "Geographical Society of Paris" when we want to differentiate properly other companies.
Its creation was proposed in 1785 by Jean-Nicolas Buache. A preparatory meeting was held July 19, 1821 between scientists who want to form a company. Geographical Society was founded 15 December 1821 at City Hall Paris. Two hundred twenty-seven persons, including the greatest scientists of the era, such Champollion , Cuvier , Dumont d'Urville , von Humboldt , Laplace , Monge , participated in its creation. Illustrious members were part. One can cite Jean Charcot , Anatole France , the Marshal Lyautey , Albert of Monaco , Elisha Recluse or Jules Verne. Recognized public utility since 1827, is the oldest company of geography in the world. It is for this reason that the president speaks first in international meetings of geographical societies.
She crowned the greatest explorers and French and foreign scholars. She patron geographies, including shipping, and contributes to the spread of French geography.
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Holdings
His wealth of books, journals, maps , atlases , globes, photographs , has since 1942 managed by the National Library of France.
It is composed of:
- 90 000 25 000 books and pamphlets,
- 2,000 periodical titles (including 340 received in exchange for the Bulletin of the Geographical Society) representing 300 000 fascicles,
- 135 000 graphic material, including 100,000 photographs on paper
- 70 000 maps,
- 500 boxes, cartons and parcels of record.
Headquarters in Paris
The headquarters of the Geographical Society is located at the beginning of the twentieth century , until 1943, in the lavish mansion built in 1896 by Roland Bonaparte , president in 1910, at No. 10, avenue d'Iena (today ' Today the building has been transformed into a palace by the hotel chain Shangri-La ).
List of Speakers
Publications
The Geographic Society publishes a newsletter since June 1822:
- Bulletin of the Geographical Society from 1822 to 1899 (monthly)
- Geography, Bulletin of the Geographical Society from 1900 to 1939 (monthly)
- Acta Geographica from 1947 to 2001 (quarterly)
- Geography from 2001 to 2007 (quarterly and many non-series themes)
- the quarterly journal of Geography , in collaboration with IGN and Editions Glnat , since December 2007. This journal is available at newsstands and subscriptions, regardless of membership in the Society
- Liaison Bulletin of the members of the Geographical Society since March 2008 (No. 1528).
The Company publishes a collection album published by Glnat , published thanks to its huge iconographic tabled in the National Library of France.
In April 2008, the Company opened a bookstore specializing in geography on the ground floor of his building, 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris' sixth arrondissement.
Bibliography
- Alfred Fierro , The Geographic Society (1821-1946), Research Centre of History and Philology of the Fourth Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, V, Advanced Studies Medieval and Modern, No. 52, Geneva, Droz, Paris, H. Champion, 1983, 342 p.
- Dominique Lejeune, the geographical societies in France and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century, Paris, Albin Michel, 1993, 236 p.
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