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The velani oak (Quercus ithaburensis or Quercus aegilops) is a tree of the Fagaceae family. It owes its name to the cups of its acorns, the velaneds, used in tannery and dyeing.   A tree with subpersistent foliage*, the velani oak measures 5 to 25 meters in height with a wingspan of up to 24 […]

We can attest proof of wine growing in the region of Chablis since the high Middle Ages. The Cistercians, who founded the Abbey of Pontigny in 1114 and subsequently stood up a cellar called the Petit Pontigny in Chablis, developed the vineyard and made it prosper thanks, in particular, to the relatively close Parisian market […]

« There has to be one last in the class. Emmanuel was that one, not that he was unintelligent, but, pushing the art of laziness far, he considered school a place of exception if not of penance. One morning he decided not to go.” Emmanuel preferred the forest into which he walked into more in depth […]

Son of Jean Charlois and Jeanne Moutet, Antoine, eighth generation, was born in Chaulgnes on April 1st , 1849 during the Second Republic (1848-1852) presided by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Emperor Napoléon III.   Antoine Charlois, wood splitter, married Marie Dollet, also from Chaulgnes, in 1873. They had 11 children, including 7 daughters (Marguerite, Marie, […]

The exhibition space of the Charlois Fund for Art and Forest, created in Murlin in the heart of the Bertranges, has entered its development phase. The interior space and circulation within the building has been redesigned to meet public safety and reception requirements, thanks to the installation of an elevator and a metal walkway clad […]

Created in June 2019, following the fire that devastated the framework and spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, the association Restaurons Notre-Dame has been working and campaigning since its creation for the restitution of the wooden masterpieces of the cathedral.   Among the four committees that made up the association, the “Scientificn Technicak and Universitary Cooperation […]

The Campania, located in the south part of the Italian peninsyla, is a region in which viticulture has been found and documented since Antiquity, thanks to the texts of Pliny the Elder (Natural History, Book XIV).   The vineyard of the PDO Asprinio di Aversa (PDO, 1993) have been cultivated haughtily for centuries. This ancestral […]

Elected Capital of Biodiversity in 2019, Lyon Métropole appears today to be one of the most commited communities in the fight against the effects of global warming thanks to its policy in favor of wooded areas.   Lyon Métropole was thus the first French city to integrate to its local urbanization plan a 30% vegetation […]

To see absolutely (and to relay widely) this evening on M6 at 9:05 pm: “Legacy, our inheritance” – the latest documentary film of Yann Arthus-Bertrand diffused in worldwide premiere. Throughout the images, Yann Arthus-Bertrand evokes his fifty years of commitment, the evolution of humanity and its impact on the planet, with the history of the […]

Banister oak (Quercus ilicifolia), also called the Bear Oak or Hollyleaf, is a tree from the Fagaceae family. It owes its name to the missionary John Banister (1650-1692) who discovered it in Virginia and included it in his Catalog of Plants Obesreved in Virginia, published in John Ray’s History of Plants (1686). Banister then designated […]