Beetween 1940 and 1945, French school geography underwent remarkable upheavals. These were partially rooted in pre-war didactic reflexions and partially the result of political circumtances. As earlu as 1940, the Vichy regime mobilized the teaching og geography to serve its ideology: the school geography curriculum was revised in order to spread the ideas of the "National Revolution" and the number of hours taught increased. It was under these circumstances that Emmanuel de Martonne obtained the creation of an "agrégation" of geography distinct from the "agrégation" of history; the first session was organised at the Liberation. While the Vichy curriculum was them rapidly repealed after 1945 geography retained the official number of hours eq...