Surgy forest once depended on the Châtellenie of Clamecy, belonging to the Counts, then to the Dukes of Nevers since the XIe century.
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.
Forests of Compierre, « Mont-Maçon » (Montmasson) and Champallement once depended on the châtellenie of Champallement. Located on Champallement municipality, those former ducal forests are now private forests.
This publication – one of the most beautiful ever published about wood – gathers a collection of engravings of European and exotic hand coloured wood samples.
The first family cooperage was created in the 1900’s in Vinay in Isère department by Jules Joseph Bith, father-in-law of Arthur Berthomieu…
Forests around the château de Faye once depended on the Châtellenie of Nevers.
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.
Mont-le-Duc forest once depended on the Châtellenie of Clamecy, belonging to the Counts, then to the Dukes, of Nevers since the XIe century.
