conservators is on record with two memoirs (1790, 1791) on the management of coppice and timber forests in which also the theory of thinnings was well developed. But among the foresters of the service there seems not to have been sufficient education to appreciate these writings, or, with the exception of _Guiot_ with his _Manuel forestier_ (1770), to bring forth any contributions to the literature and art, until the 19th century. In 1803, we find the first encyclopædic volume in _Traité de l’Aménagement des Forêts_, which was followed, in 1805, by a very incorrect translation of Hartig’s _Lehrbuch_, both by Baudrillart, professor of political economy, who also published in 12 volumes his _Traité Général des Eaux et Forêts_. _Perthuis_, in 1796, and _Dralet_, a forester, in 1807, also brought out treatises on forest management, which include all branches of the subject. According to Huffel, the foresters of this period (Louis XV and XVI) were of superior character, and forestry in France the first in the world; the writings of French authors were being translated into German and studied by foreign foresters. He has to admit, however, that the majority of these authors were not really members of the forest service. In 1836 appeared _Parade’s_ _Cours Elémentaire de Culture des Bois_, an excellent book, recording the teachings of Hartig and Cotta. This seems to have been all-sufficient until 1873, at least. Such things as yield tables are still a mere wish, when _Tassy_ wrote his _Etudes, etc._, in 1858, while _de Salomon_ a little later reproduced Cotta’s yield tables, and to this day this needful tool of the forester is still almost absent, at least in the literature of France. _Nanquette_, _Broillard_, _Bagneris_, _Puton_, _Reuss_, _Boppe_, all directors or professors at the forest school, enriched the French literature by volumes on silviculture and forest management, and _Henry_ on soil physics. He also translated from the German Wollny’s _Décomposition des matières organiques_. It is claimed by _Guyot_, that a truly “French science” (!) of forestry dates from _Broillard’s Cours d’aménagement_ in 1878. _Demontzey’s Reboisement des montagnes_, 1882, is a classic volume. Of more modern book literature may be mentioned three voluminous publications, namely _Traité des arbres_ by _Mouillefert_ (1892-1898) in 3 volumes, and _Traité d’exploitation commerciale des bois_ by _Matthey_ in two volumes, and _Guyot’s_ _Cours de droit forestier_ in two volumes. A very complete work on valuation of damage under the misleading title _Incendies en forêt_ was published by _Jacquot_ in 1903. But the latest and perhaps most ambitious work in the French language and especially of intense interest from the historical point of view, tracing not only the development of forest policies but of silvicultural and managerial practices in France, is _G. Huffel’s_ _Economie Forestière_ in three volumes published 1904-1907.