International audienceIn France relations between history and geography have been strongly influenced by the existence of tensions on the long run. These come from separation between these two disciplines during the erection of geography as university discipline at the end of the XIXth century. With highly marked historical contents theses, the geography of the first half of the XXth century has had to build its identity against history. Recurrent justification gave then at the idea of a ladder of incommensurable time with that of history. From 1950s till 1980s, tensions have consolidated around the topic of the treason preventing the creation of single social science, in the same time, criticisms related to the determinism, which, due to a...