Fernand Braudel's work is a necessary reference for all those who carry out works referring to the Mediterranean area. François Dosse has already shown that the notion of geographical time and immobile history developed by Braudel regarding the Mediterranean - the basis of his geohistory -originates from his appropriation of the geographical idea of the permanence of lifestyles, a theory developed by Vidal de La Blache. Following this thesis, this article aims at elucidating the essential part played in the transmission of this concept by the colonial work of the geographer Émile-Félix Gautier (1864- 1940). Braudel who had lived in Algeria for almost ten years (1923-1932) acknowledged the intellectual influence that this professor at the Al...