210 France. 



The first director of this school, Bernard Lorentz. hav- 

 ing become acquainted and befriended with G. L. Hartig, 

 and his assistant, afterward his son-in-law and successor, 

 Adolphe Parade, having studied under Cotta (1817- 

 1818) in Tharand, this school introduced the science of 

 forestry as it had then been developed in Grermany ; but 

 later generations under Banquette, 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 ten- 

 dencies 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 considered 

 equivalent to the education in the school for advance- 

 ment 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 and selection forest, 

 an incident almost precisely repeated in the State of New 

 York in abandoning its State College at Cornell Uni- 

 versity; and in other respects the two cases appear par- 

 allel. Parade, the successor of Lorentz being imbued 

 with the same heretical doctrines was constantly in 

 trouble and in 1847 a most savage attack in the legisla- 

 ture was launched which threatened the collapse of tlie 

 school. This condition lasted until Parade's death, in 

 1864, when Banquette assumed guidance of the school 



