6. Brazil in France

The chapter’s approach reveals how Brazilian geography comes to France in the period being analyzed and emphasizes the invitation that was made to Lysia Maria Cavalcante Bernardes, to minister the course “Types of urban networks in Brazil,” at IHEAL, Institute of High Studies of Latin America, in 1967. The title reveals the extent to which Brazilian geography was up to date at that time. The Brazilian guest worked on a theme which had a conceptual structure which was still regarded as a novelty in France. A rare moment of synchronicity between the two countries occurred, in terms of themes studied. In Toulouse, in this year, Milton Santos lectured on “Population and Food.” It is important to emphasize the way Brazil was discovered by France, as is revealed in research carried out in the INTERGEO Bulletin Number 10, of 1968 in which Brazil was the subject of books, research, and films.