210 France. 



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

 ing become acquainted and befriended ^dth 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, BroUlard, 

 Boppe and Puton, imbued with patriotism, attempted in 

 a manner to strike out on original lines. 



As a consequence of the "unpatriotic" (Jerman 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 iu 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 

 nf his great merits, because he advocated too warmly the 

 application of the superior system o f regeneration under 

 shdterwood to replace the coppice and selection forest, 

 an incident almost precisely repeated iu the Stat e of Kew 

 _2o^in abandoniag its State CoUege at Cornell Uni- 

 Yeeaiy; and m oiher respects tne two case s 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 the 

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

 1864, when Nanquette assumed guidance of the school 



