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==Biography==
Appointed in 1826, as a mathematics tutor, at ''l'[[École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr]]'', Lavallée successively became a history tutor and professor of geography and statistics applied to military science.<ref>https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11911400d</ref>
It was [[Pierre-Jules Hetzel]] associated with Paulin who published his ''Histoire des Français'' in [[1838 in literature|1838]]. Subsequently, he continued his collaboration with Hetzel notably for ''Le Diable à Paris'' (The Devil in Paris) by writing a History and Geography of Paris in the foreword to each volume but also with [[Jules Verne]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8M07AAAAcAAJ ''Géographie illustrée de la France et de ses colonies par Jules Verne; Précédée d'une étude sur la géographie générale de la France par Théophile Lamallée'']; illustrations par Hubert Clerget et [[Édouard Riou]] (1868)</ref>
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