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first at Macon and then at Dijon, retiring in 1891. From 1892 

 to 1903 he was editor of the Raute des Eaux et Forets. He 

 was also closely connected with the Society of Franche Comte 

 and Belfort, of which he was honorary president. 



M. Broilliard was the author of several well-known works on 

 forestry, and of innumerable pamphlets. The best known of his 

 works are his Traitement des bois en France, written specially to 

 assist private owners of woodlands, and his Amenagement, a 

 manual of working-plans which, though written long ago, is a 

 classic and still of the greatest value. M. Broilliard's style was 

 strong and clear, and his letters always most amusing and 

 picturesque. In his latter days there was sometimes a note of 

 patient pathos which was touching, as when he closed a letter 

 to an old pupil with the words, "Je ne puis plus circuler 

 dans les bois, mais la foret est toujours belle." What it must 

 have cost him to give up his visits to the woods can only be 

 fully understood by those who knew his absolutely passionate 

 devotion to the forests. Great teacher though he was, out 

 of the immense stores of his experience and observation (for 

 he knew all the State forests in France, and had studied them 

 with keenness and wisdom), his greatest value to his pupils was 

 his enthusiasm. None could meet him without seeing a little 

 of that inner light which seemed to burn with the ardour 

 of a religion. He did not believe in a pedantic application of 

 mathematics to forestry, holding that although of course they 

 were necessary in a general sense, yet the conditions of soil, 

 aspect, situation, and many other factors are so infinitely varied 

 that too much should not be expected of mathematics, and that 

 the forester should never cease to watch and observe. 



Naturally M. Broilliard was best known in France, but he 

 was also well known abroad, and many members of the Indian 

 Forest Service have been his pupils. To some of them he 

 continued to write to the end of his life his pleasant, character- 

 istic and friendly letters. A. G. H-H. 



