Une géographie des mouvements de jeunesse en Belgique francophone

The paper looks into the geography of scouting movements in the French Community of Belgium, made up of organisations gathering local associations aimed at educating and occupying children or youngsters by means of various activities. We examine the characteristics of the establishment of the different movements (urbanity, socio-economic level, subregionalism) and interpret this distribution as the result of a spatial diffusion process partly structured by the sociopolitical pillars of the Belgian society (catholicism, socialism, liberalism).