Lucien Louis Joseph Gallois (21 February 1857 – 21 March 1941) was a French

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born in

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. He was a student at the

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in Paris, where he took classes from

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(1845–1918). In 1884 he received his agrégation, later becoming a lecturer at the

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(1893). From 1898 to 1907 he was a professor of

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at the École Normale Supérieure, and afterwards a professor at the Sorbonne, where he remained until his retirement in 1927. Gallois made major contributions to the ''

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'', a geographical journal that he co-founded with his mentor, Paul Vidal de la Blache. Following the death of Vidal de la Blache in 1918, he assumed directorship of ''Géographie universelle'', a major project involving regional geography of the entire world. Gallois had a keen interest in the fields of

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and

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, as made evident by an influential 1890 study on German geographers of the

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titled ''Les géographes allemands de la Renaissance''. Another noted publication of his was ''Régions naturelles et noms de pays: Étude sur la région Parisienne'' (Natural regions and country names: A study of the Paris region).

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". {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallois, Lucien French geographers Scientists from Metz 1857 births 1941 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal