Antoine Vacher was a French geographer, mainly interested in physical geography, and particularly in hydrography.
18 Facts About Antoine Vacher
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Antoine Vacher was the brilliant son of a family of tailors from Montlucon, Allier.
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Antoine Vacher's paternal grandfather was a farmer in the Allier, while his maternal grandfather was a craftsman.
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Antoine Vacher's father experienced serious financial difficulties and had to go into debt to save his small business.
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Antoine Vacher was an honorary scholar at the Lycee de Lyon, and a scholar at the Lycee Henri-IV in Paris.
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Antoine Vacher was a student of Paul Vidal de La Blache, but in his doctorate wrote almost exclusively about physical geography, and ignored human geography.
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Antoine Vacher collaborated with Albert Demangeon, Joseph Blayac and others on the Dictionnaire-manuel illustre de geographie.
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Antoine Vacher was an undisciplined scholar who missed deadlines and whose work often contains errors.
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The book received hostile reviews, and Demangeon seems to have accused Antoine Vacher of sabotaging the project.
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Antoine Vacher later became a Docteur es lettres in 1908.
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Antoine Vacher was replaced by Henri Baulig when he left Rennes in 1912.
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In 1912 Antoine Vacher was among 43 European geographers, guests of the American Geographical Society, who arrived in New York around 12 August 1912 for a transcontinental excursion.
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Antoine Vacher focused on "Steppes and deserts" in his report of the excursion.
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Antoine Vacher was impressed by the way in which the Mormons had transformed Utah through water control and irrigation schemes.
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Antoine Vacher suffered from poor health, and in July 1914 underwent surgery in which chloroform was used as an anaesthetic.
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Antoine Vacher was given a personal professorship at Lille on 24 April 1919 but on 16 November 1919 was given leave due to health problems.
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Antoine Vacher was given a full professorship on 1 January 1920.
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Antoine Vacher's health continued to deteriorate and Vacher died on 16 September 1920 in Paris at the age of 46.