FRANCE. 
Germany’s neighbor to the West developed forest pol- 
icies and practices which are quite different in some 
respects, although the early history of forestry in France 
was largely analogous to that of Germany. Indeed, 
until 911, the two countries being undivided, the same 
usages existed more or less in both, except that in the 
Gallic country Roman influence left a stronger im- 
print, Gallia having been long under the dominion of 
Rome. 
No complete monographic history of forestry in France is in existence, and 
only incomplete notes scattered through various volumes were at the disposal of 
the writer. 
L. F. A. Maury, Les foréts de la Gaule et del ancienne France, 1867, 501 
pp. is mainly descriptive, but full of interesting historic data and detail up to the 
revolutionary period. 
The work which contains the largest amount of historic information is G. 
Hurre., Economie Forestiére, vol. 1, 1904,419 pp., which has been largely followed 
in the account here given. Historic data regarding the develop of the 
in France are promised in the d vol , the first touchi inly on property 
4 policies and admini jon 
Jures Ciavi, Etudes sur [économie foresti2re, 1862, 377 pp, 12°, while 
mainly a prop dist essay, reh to some extent the history of forest 
practice, policies, etc., and gives a good insight into conditions at that time. 
Die forstlichen Verhdltnisse Frankreichs, by Dr. A. v. SECKENDORFF, 1879, 
pp. 228, furnishes a few historical notes, 
Three English publications by JoHN CroumBIE Brown, Pine Plantations tn 
France, Reboisement in France, 1876; French Forest Ordinance of 1669, 1882, 
are profuse and not entirely accurate, but give hints of historic development. 
Cu. Guyot, L’enseignment forestier en France, 1898, 898 pp., gives an 
insight into the development of forestry education anda plete history of the 
school at Nancy, and throws much light on other developments. 
Code de la législation forestitre, par Puron, contains all the legislation 
having reference to forests. . 
An article on L’idée forestidre dans (histoire, by L. F, Tessizr, in Revue 
des eaux et foréts, 1905, Jan., Feb., gives on 26 pages an interesting brief survey 
of the history of forest policy in France, 
Forestry in France, by F. Batvey, in the /ndian Forester, 1886, 61 pp., 
describes well conditions at that time. 
