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Paul Vidal de la Blache (Pézenas, 22 January 1845 - Tamaris, 5 April 1918) was a French regional geographer. He is considered to be the founder of the modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
He founded the École française de géographie ("French School of Geography) and together with Lucien Gallois, the Annales de Géographie (1893), of which he was the editor until his death.
He produced a large number of publications; including 17 books, 107 articles, and 240 reports and reviews. Only some of these have been translated into English. His most influential works included an elementary textbook Collection de Cartes Murales Accomppagnees de Notices along with Histoire et Geographie: Atlas General and La France de l'Est.
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