Bertranges forest

In his collectionLes Contemplations, Victor Hugo’s lyricism is built upon constant references to nature. For example, the author dedicates a poem Aux Trees of the forest, which he personifies and with which he ultimately identifies, perhaps more so than with his fellow humans. Hugo concludes this hymn to the forest by expressing his desire to […]

Beauty of winter sceneries in the Bertranges forest, magnified by the photograph Christophe Deschanel.

Population censuses are very useful because, as a snapshot of a precise moment, they inform us about the demographic composition of a territory. Data collected in Murlin through the population censuses shed light on the changes in the professional structure of the village population during the 19th century.   As a matter of fact, after […]

The twenty-fourth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts two women in the forest of Bertranges carrying on their shoulder heavy bags filled with grass. The collection of grass was part of a series of customs inherited from the past regime.

Because of its history and its timber forest logging for more than 300 years, the Bertranges national forest harbours natural treasures that we may discover walking the roads of that 7600 hectares forest.

The twenty-third postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a woman harvesting mistletoe in the forest of Bertranges. Mistletoe is a hemiparasite clorofilliana plant growing on trees and shrubs.

The twenty-second postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts around fifteen loggers on their way back home after their hard day’s work in the cuts of the forest of Bertranges.

Since the venerable oak forest of Bertranges grows in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, it might be said that it was destined for wine by its very geography.

The twenty-first postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a man and a woman making bundles of wood in the forest of Bertranges.

The twentieth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts two men, with their axe on the shoulder, in the forest of Bertranges leaving for the winter season forestry activities.

The nineteenth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a man squaring timber with an axe in the forest of Bertranges.

The eighteenth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts two men coming back from the forest with a bundle, one made of fern the other of broom, on their shoulder.