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On the political stage, scenes of accelerated modernization of the country were being drawn, based on programs of bilateral cooperation. This was a strong call, and in this call, France stood out. The situation of dependency remains, and France calmly takes advantage of its status as a role model for the world in diverse sectors. There is evidence of French supremacy at various levels in the relationships established in the fields of formation or internship in Geography above all those maintained between teachers and students, researchers and interns, and so forth. This becomes more intense in the period following 1934 when our sense of lack was complete and the discourse concerning progress takes it shape. The need to form personnel able to structure and maintain a satisfactory academic environment in Brazil involves nearly all areas of knowledge.
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Notes
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Velho (1992, p 199).
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Valverde, Orlando. In: op. cit. (T.A) p. 8.4.
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Micelli, Sergio. In: op. cit. (T.A) p. 265.
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Berque J (1982, p. 22).
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Author’s Note The full names of the students who went to France after WWII: Héldio Xavier Lenz César, Miguel Alves de Lima, Elza Coelho de Souza Keller and Myriam Mesquita, Professor Sternbergs full name was Hilgard O’Reilly Sternberg.
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Author’s Note: Prof. Milton Santos helped to clarify what the famous episode involving Professor Tricart in 1956, year of the UGI might be: “1956 was a very important year for international geography as it marked the shift in the balance of world geography, from Europe to the United States, it was the moment in which American influence in the UGI increases and one of the artifices of the moment was precisely Prof. Sternberg, who shortly after was named a professor in the United States. Sternberg organized a geography Congress in Rio de Janeiro, with some Brazilian colleagues, supported by the CNG (National Geography Council) and simultaneously he organized a Course in High Geographical Studies, which was a great event. In the organization of this course he carried out a type of ideological witch-hunt, he clearly vetoed the participation of professors with progressive thinking, except Prof. Monbeig, of course. I don’t even know if Monbeig was giving this course, I don’t believe so. So, his guests were several important people but Tricart for example wasn’t invited by him, but he was invited by Miguel Alves de Lima, who was not progressive and invited Prof. Tricart to give a course alone at the old Lafayette. I have another example of Sternberg’s ideological preoccupation, because when I had invited Tricart to Bahia, I was informed by my friends in the IBGE that Sternberg had obtained a memorandum from the Brazilian authorities requesting that Tricart should not be made welcome anywhere; but this memorandum was not obeyed by the federal workers in Bahia, with whom we had close relations” (Interview in January 1993, in Paris).
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da Silva, J.B. (2016). The Production of Theses by Brazilians in France. In: French-Brazilian Geography. SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31023-7_7
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