1921-2021: the centenary of Emmanuel de Martonne's excursions to Romania

Within the dual framework of the "Corpus E. de Martonne" project coordinated by Gaëlle Hallair (CNRS) and the "Ecole française de géographie" project run by the Sorbonne Inter-University Library (BIS), this bilingual Franco-Romanian exhibition commemorates the centenary of the great excursions led by geographer Emmanuel de Martonne across Romania in 1921.
Excursion d'Emmanuel de Martonne
Paringu, campement dans la montagne, vers 1900. EU3554-035 UMR PRODIG - Photothèque © DR‎

This exhibition contributes to enhancing the archival heritage of geographers by highlighting notebooks, field photographs, private and official documents preserved both in France and Romania.

It echoes the digital exhibition presented in March 2020 at BIS, which noted the online availability on the BIS digital library (Nubis) of numerous archival documents relating to E. de Martonne, notably his notebooks concerning the Romanian terrain. A nomadic exhibition, it has already been presented at the Bibliothèque de l'Institut de Géographie in Paris (2021), in Cluj (2021), in Bucharest (2023) and in Brasov (2023).

In 8 panels, the exhibition addresses the Romanian terrain as the matrix of a glacial geomorphology, but also the links of sociability and the circulation of knowledge, concluding with the contrasting reception and marks of recognition of the French geographer in both France and Romania.

Contacts : Gaëlle Hallair (ghallair@parisgeo.cnrs.fr)
Diana Lemay (diana.lemay@gmail.com)