Geograful francez Emmanuel de Martonne şi mediul românesc. Elemente de imagologie şi constatări proprii din Basarabia postbelică
Emmanuel de Martonne, the French Geographer, and the Romanian Milieu. Elements of Imagology and Personal Remarks on Post-War Bessarabia

Summary/Abstract: In the post-World War I period, the Romanian environment was receiving particular attention from the international academic environment, in particular, because of the political and diplomatic questions that begin to be formulated worldwide, among which the most important question was the way how the new frontiers of the Romanian state should be drawn. In the context of these questions, perhaps the most “illustrious connoisseur” of the Romanian environment, in the person of the French geographer Emmanuel de Martonne, will undertake a series of documentary journeys in the Romanian environment for the Paris-Versailles Peace Conference. His reports, as Secretary of the Romanian Affairs Committee, grounded political and diplomatic decisions in the case of Romania, and the concept of “Great Romania”, that was created after the war, bears his mark. Following his voyage to Bessarabia, a report was published that included his personal findings in the region. They give us a true image of the Bessarabian environment, describing elements regarding the population of the region, elements of infrastructure and, most importantly, elements regarding the ethnic perceptions of the population.

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