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Once received on the Murlin site, the logs were cut into sections. This step was carried out with a two-men chainsaw. This type of chainsaw became widespread in sawmills after the Second World War: one man was placed on the engine side and the second at the other end to guide the blade.   The […]

The Charlois family has always enjoyed a close relationship with the Bertranges forest and its century-old oak trees. It was therefore only natural for the Charlois family to have sourced, for several centuries, high-quality oak staves from this exceptional forest that is now managed by the ONF (National Forest Office). These photographs taken by Jean-Louis […]

Friday October 6 was the traditional Autumn timber sale of the ONF Bourgogne-Ouest agency (Nièvre and Yonne), in Clamecy. 8:30 am, Romain-Rolland room, 1st floor of the Town Hall. The room is filling up fast. The bidding is about to begin. Among 30 or so buyers present, or on videoconference, Maison Charlois is well represented, […]

The Sunda oak (Quercus argentata or Quercus pinanga) is a tree in the Fagaceae family, whose natural distribution extends from Peninsular Malaysia to the islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Java (Indonesia). It owes its scientific name, argentata, to the silvery colour of the hairs on the underside of its leaves.   Use of Sunda oak […]

At the end of October 1660, Colbert was about to complete his second voyage to the Duchy of Nevers. Faced with the magnitude of the task he still had to accomplish, Colbert warned his mentor that he would be forced to return to the Duchy the following year to carry out his mission: “And I […]

ONF Fall Sale of Nevers (October 15, 2021)   The big annual autumn sale of hardwood lumber from the public forests of Nièvre and Yonne departments was organized last week by the ONF in Clamecy, in the north of Nièvre *. Timber sales, organized throughout the year, are part of the forest management process necessary […]

The American chestnut oak (Quercus montana), commonly called Rock chesnut oak in English, is a tree of the Fagaceae family whose natural range extends from the center to the northeast of the United States of America, the Appalachian Mountains constituting its southern limit: Alabama, North and South Carolina, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, […]

Cardinal Mazarin’s private secretary, in charge of his possessions and his immense fortune, Colbert takes possession of the Duchy of Nièvre on behalf of Mazarin in 1659. During Autumn 1660, Colbert starts a second journey in the Duchy to implement the necessary reforms for its reorganization. Once there, he sends a letter to Mazarin on […]

The Hungarian oak (Quercus frainetto or Quercus conferta) is a tree of the Fagaceae family whose natural range extends from central Italy to northwestern Turkey: Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia), Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary , Italy, Romania and Turkey.   Use of Hungarian oak The wood of the Hungarian oak is used in the […]

The Jury of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), which met in Paris on September 9, 2021, this year awarded 16 Prizes and 10 Special Mentions from around sixty publications in competition.   Today, we are very proud to announce that the work “Le Chêne en majesté, de la forêt au vin”, written […]