International audienceThe Reclus and Hachette publishers: the first agency of French geography? - In an 1872 article, ÉliséeReclus described ÉdouardCharton, the editor of Tour du Monde, as "the educator of the nation", because of the important geographical information that his journal was alone in disseminating at the time. Practically every major French geographer in the second half of the 19th century published with Hachette. Could the publishing house be considered the main agency for the production of geographic knowledge in France before the discipline was institutionalised in French universities? Which was the role of geographers like Reclus, who were often considered to be outside the mainstream? This paper analyses Hachette's archiv...