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The replacement of deforestation in France by reforestation would be finally realized in the 19th century: a heartening achievement illustrative of what mankind can accomplish given enlightened political leadership supported by sound scientific evidence. That it required two centuries following the ordinance of 1669 can be a sobering reflection, no matter that, in the end, the botanophiles won the war. What is more, the dogged resistence to reform during the final decades of the campaign exposed anew the true traditional sources of deforestation and why its revival poses an endless threat.
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Ibid., pp. 21–25.
Badré, “Le XIXe Siècle forestier,”, p. 511.
Ibid., pp. 469–525.
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Williams, R.L. (2001). Epilogue. 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_13
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