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FRANCE. 



France is one of the countries in which forestry 

 has been practised for a long time and forestry prac- 

 tice has been almost as highly developed as in the 

 preceding Teutonic countries. 



Germany's neighbor to the West has evolved, 

 however, forest policies and practices which are 

 different in some respects from those of Germany, 



No complete monographic history of forestry in France is in existence, and 

 mainly incomplete notes scattered through various volumes were at the disposal 

 of the writer. 



The work which contains the largest amount of historic information is G. 

 Hlffel, Economie Forestiere, 3 volumes, 1904-1907, pp. 422, 484. 510, perhaps the 

 most ambitious work in the French language, which has been largely followed in 

 the account here given. It is a collection of ten studies, historical data being 

 interspersed throughout the three volumes, the third volume containing one study 

 entirely historical. 



L. F. A. Maury, Les forets de la Gaule V ancienne France, 1867, 501 pp. is 

 mainly descriptive, but full of interesting historic data and detail up to the revo- 

 utionary period. 



Jules Clave, Etudes sur I iconomie forestiere, 1862, 377, pp. 12, while mainly 

 a propagandist essay, rehearses to some extent the history of forest practice, 

 policies, etc , and gives a good insight into conditions at that time. 



Die forstlichen Verhaltnisse Frankreirhs, by Dr. A. V. Sbckendorff, 1879, 

 pp. 223, furnishes a few historical notes. 



Three English publications by John Croumbie Brown, Pine Plantations in 

 France, Reboisement in France, 1876; French Forest Ordinance of 1669, 1882, 

 are profuse and not entirely accurate, but give hints of historic development. 



Ch. Guyot, L enseignement forest ier en France, 1898, 398 pp., gives an insight 

 jnto the development of forestry education and a complete history of the school 

 at Nancy, and throws much light on other developments. 



Code de la legislation forestiere, par PuTON, contains all the legislation having 

 reference to forests. 



An article on L 'idee forestiere dans I'histoire, by L. F. Tessier, in Revue des 

 eaux et forets, 1905, Jan., Feb., gives on 26 pages an interesting brief survey ot 

 the history of forest policy in France. 



Forestry in France, by F. Bailey, in the Indian Forester, 1886, 61 pp., de- 

 scribes well conditions at that time. 



