52 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



The Ordinance of 1669 was neither the first nor the 

 last Forest Ordinance issued in France. Certainly not 

 the first : it was preceded by many. 



The first Ordinance in regard to forests appeared in the 

 reign of Louis VI. in 1215 ; 



The second under Philippe II. in 1219 ; 



The third under Louis VIII. in 1222 ; 



The fourth under Philippes le Hardi in 1280; 



The fifth under Phillipes le Vel in 1291 ; 



The sixth under Louis X. in 1316 ; 



The seventh under Philippes le Long in 1318 ; 



The eighth under Phillipes des Valors in 1346 ; 



The ninth under Jean le Bon in 1355 ; 



The tenth under Charles V. in 1376 ; 



The eleventh under Charles VIII. in 1485 ; 



The twelfth under Frangois I. in 1515 ; 



The thirteenth under Henri II. in 1547 ; 



The fourteenth under Francois II. in 1558 ; 



The fifteenth under Charles IX. in 1560 ; 



The sixteenth under Henri III. in 1575 ; 



The seventeenth under Henri IV. in 1597 ; 



The eighteenth under Louis XIII. in 1G11 ; 



This, the nineteenth, the Celebrated Ordinance of 1669, 

 was prepared by Colbert in the reign of Louis XIV. But 

 neither was it the last. It was followed by several in 

 succeeding times, many of which were not unimportant, 

 either in the injunctions given or in the results which 

 followed the promulgation of them; but further specification 

 of these is not necessary either to the understanding or 

 to the due appreciation of this which is the one with 

 which we have at present to do. 



Besides the Ordinances which have been enumerated, 

 there were issued edicts, declarations, and regulations, 

 founded on these, and enforcing them in the administration 

 and management of the forests, and supplementing them. 

 The ordinances bear that they relate to Le fait> or the 

 matter, des Eaux et Forets, and in many of the older forest 



