 Vidal de la Blache’s Tableau de la géographie de la France 
Intersecting the interest of geographers in the discursive aspect of thought with their growing interest in images (linguistic, mental, or iconographic), I propose here to revisit the text/images relationship at work in the Tableau de la géographie de la France in the light of Roland Barthes work on the photographic image, La chambre claire. Note sur la photographie (1980). My hypothesis is that the photographic image (its modus operandi according to Barthes) makes it possible to highlight a type of reading/gaze established by the Tableau. I want to understand the geographical experience of a subject who is both a reader and observer of the Tableau, through a dialogue with images, as a pedagogy of the relationship between individuals, places, and self-conduct.