242 France. 



came into existence after a considerable campaign, 

 directed by Baudrillart, Chief of Division, Adminis- 

 tration Generale des Forets, and professor of political 

 economy. His campaign in the Annates Forestieres, 

 the first volume of which appeared in 1808, and in 

 other writings as in his Dictionaire des eanx et forets 

 (1825), led to the establishment of the forest school at 

 Nancy in 1825. 



The first director of this school, Bernard Lorentz, 

 having become acquainted with and befriended by 

 G. L. Hartig, and his assistant, afterward his son-in- 

 law and successor, Adolphe Parade, having studied 

 under Cotta (1817-1818) in Tharandt, this school intro- 

 duced the science of forestry as it had then been de- 

 veloped in Germany; but later generations under 

 Nanquette, Bagneris, Broillard, Boppe and Puton, 

 imbued with patriotism, attempted in a manner to 

 strike out on original lines. 



As a consequence of the "unpatriotic" German 

 tendencies of its first directors the continuance of the 

 school at Nancy was several times threatened, there 

 being friction between the administration of the school 

 and the service, which in 1844 came to a climax, agents 

 in the service being employed without preparation in 

 the school, a condition which lasted until 1856. 



Even to date an active service of 15 years is con- 

 sidered equivalent to the education in the school for 

 advancement in the service. 



In 1839, Lorentz was disgracefully displaced, in 

 spite of his great merits, because he advocated too 

 warmly the application of the superior system of 

 regeneration under shelterwood to replace the coppice 



