News Trees and forests in the arts

The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of Gustave Flaubert’s birth. Hard worker, Flaubert compiled many notes to prepare the writing of his novels, with scientific rigour and in order to give the most accurate account of reality possible. Flaubert did not deviate from his thirst for rigour in the descriptions of flora that he gave […]

October 22, 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Georges Brassens.   A true poet of French song, Brassens handled the French language with virtuosity and his verses still resonate, despite his passing forty years ago, in the ears of many of us.   Trees, and in general the animal and plant worlds, occupy […]