Germaine Veyret-Verner

[1] Germaine Veyret-Verner was a major contributor to all her husband's achievements (the construction of the IGA and of the Saint-Martin d'Hères campus and the influence of the RGA),[1][6] bringing "the organisational sense and sense of initiative which allowed them to realise their great achievements, that art of public relations which so contributed to the influence of geography from Grenoble".

[4] Blanchard said of her subject: We could only praise all sorts of brilliant qualities - the certainty of the information, the judicious and reasonable tone, the guiding ideas, the sobriety of the argument's development, the vigour of the formulas and expressions ... the suppleness of the overall plan and of the detail.

[1][7]In 1949 she succeeded Max Derruau, who had left for Clermont-Ferrand,[4] and was made professor of geography at the faculté des lettres de Grenoble,[5] making her the second woman (after Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier in Lille to take up such a role.

[8] According to her husband, "her teaching, drawn from original research in human and regional geography, played a considerable part in the Institut de Géographie Alpine's rise during this period".

[1] Renowned for her great intelligence and her engagement with her students,[1][11][2] she and her husband set up the Institut de Géographie Alpine on the Le Rabot slope in 1961[6] She is closely associated with the influence of the Institut and of the Revue de Géographie Alpine[11][6][2] and was a member of the Grenoble group of the Association française des femmes diplômées des Universités[12][13] She died of a heart attack in Grenoble[1] and is buried in the cemetery in her birthplace.

[1] In 1959, in her article « La deuxième révolution économique et démographique des Alpes du Nord : les sports d'hiver.