“…It produced a spatial differentiation of the reception of the new techniques: strong in East and Southeast of the country, where there was a relative lack of prominent professors; strong but in minority in Paris; influential in isolated and new university centers like Rouen and Reims; weak out of those social configurations.Newcomers converted to such "new" techniques created affinity groupslike Groupe Dupont (1971), Groupe d'action géographique"(GAG 1971(GAG -1972, and The Unicorn (mid-1970s)related to the expansion of a new methodology. The latter one was a feminine group, which emphasized the significant role and demographic weight of women in the movement: as a non-mainstream, not socially valorizing, part of geography, quantitative techniques attracted a relatively strong inflow of young women(Pumain and Robic 2003;Ginsburger 2017). If mathematics didn't imply any political meaning per se, May-June 68 projected shadow gave almost immediately a critical tone to such an initially reformist movement.…”