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The Botanophiles Confront Deforestation

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One of the most prominent of the ordinances prepared by the indefatigable Colbert related to Waters and Forests, given by the king at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in August 1669. Colbert was no botanophile. But his every effort was meant to conserve and extend the wealth of the state, and he knew a very elementary truth: to despoil the forests was to erode, not to increase, that wealth.

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Williams, R.L. (2001). The Botanophiles Confront Deforestation. In: Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France. Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 179. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9849-1_12

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