Culture

The Nièvre department was one of the main region for producing metal before being supplanted by Lorraine and Northern France steel-producing areas in the 19th century.

The tenth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a coalman erecting a charcoal kiln.

With threats to the biodiversity, France decides a few years ago to collect all the natural history collections data on a single IT platform. As a matter of fact, natural history collections are a very important source of information to understand global climatic change since the start of the industrial age and to scientifically document the evolut [...]

The ninth postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a young boy drinking the water of a spring.

The first sawmill to produce on the Nièvre Merrain site has been built by Alexandre Boulon as shown an advertisement published in the Guide touristique de Varzy (Varzy tourist guide) in 1923.

Etymologically, “loge” (lodge) comes from the Old Frankish word laubja (foliage hut). The lodge, precarious housing typical of the forest proletariat, was usually built by loggers or coal workers directly on the cutting areas.

This exceptional wood and metal hydraulic sawmill model, dating from the beginning of the 20th century, has probably been made by a sawmill worker.

The seventh postcard of the series “The Forest in Nivernais” depicts a craftsman shaping a clog on a block.

Connected in the past to rites of passage in traditional societies, tattooing practice was then largely popularized

The first family cooperage was created in the early 1870’s in Rieux-Minervois in Aude region, by François Cabrié, father-in-law of Jean Saury.

The forest house of Petite Bertrange is located at the north-east of the state forest, along the current D38 departmental road, close to the Mazou stream and the hamlet of Les Limousins.

The fifth postcard of the series "The Forest in Nivernais", printed from a photograph of Raoul Saulnier d'Anchald, depicts a woodcutter striping the bark from a oak.