(FILES) French geographer Yves Lacoste poses next to the sedan chair of the explorer La Perouse on March 22, 2001 at the Paris Geographical Society, to mark the 25th anniversary of "Herodote", a journal offering a geopolitical interpretation of historical events, of which he is the founder. The geographer Yves Lacoste, regarded as the father of the French school of geopolitics, died on June 20, 2026 at the age of 96, AFP learnt on June 22 from Beatrice Giblin, editor-in-chief of the journal Herodote, founded by Yves Lacoste. (Photo by JOEL ROBINE / AFP via Getty Images)