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From the perspective of the history of the social and human sciences, the aim of this article is to make the theory of “social space”as developed between the two world wars by Maurice Halbwachs better known. The work of this sociologist on “social time” and collective memory is now once again receiving attention within francophone research. Nevertheless his conceptualisation of “social space” consubstantial with his reflexions on “social time” remains little known. The study of the spatial dimension of social facts, such as initially presented by the author in Cadres sociaux de la mémoire (1925), is nothing less than a heuristic approach linking together society, space, time and collective memory.