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- Title
The Crown and the Community: Communal Woodlands and State Forestry in the Landes during the Eighteenth Century.
- Abstract
An essay is presented on communal woodland property and state forestry in the Landes region of France in the eighteenth century. It comments on cartography and forest surveys, the role of the royal bureaucracy, and the expansion of the monarchy's authority in forest management. Other topics include ecclesiastical forests, landownership, and ship-timbers used by the French navy.
- Subjects
LANDES (France : Region); FRANCE; FORESTS &; forestry; FOREST management; COMMONS; FRENCH monarchy -- History; FOREST surveys; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
French History & Civilization, 2009, Vol 3, p33
- ISSN
1832-9683
- Publication type
Essay