found: Tropiques, développement et mondialisation, 2018:title page (hommages à Jean-Louis Chaléard) pages 13-16 (at UFR de géographie de Paris 1; Côte d'Ivoire and urban-rural relations are at the heart of his research; born in 1947 in Bron; agrégation de géographie 1971; taught at Paris X-Nanterre 1971-1973; master's carried out in Senegal in 1970; at ENS d'Abidjan 1973-1977; used methods of agroeconomics and anthropology as well as geography, permitting fruitful collaborations; thèse 3e cycle in geography 1979, Université Paris X-Nanterre, topic: Structures agraires et économie de plantation en pays abé (département d'Agboville, Côte d'Ivoire); recruited to teach at ENS de Saint-Cloud in 1980; doctorat d'Etat 1994, Université Paris X-Nanterre, on "merchant food" in Côte d'Ivoire; from 1984 he participated in the DEA Géographie et pratique du développement (Paris 1, Paris X, in agreement with ENS Saint-Cloud); elected professor of "géographie tropicale et du développement" at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1995, where he is emeritus professor since his retirement in 2014)