The Moorlands of Gascony was a place of dramatic rural modernization in Nineteenth-Century France, transforming in one generation from open moors to the largest man-made forest in Europe.
This study draws upon the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921) to explore how these changes were negotiated by the people who lived there..
The Moorlands of Gascony was a place of dramatic rural modernization in Nineteenth-Century France, transforming in one generation from open moors to the largest man-made forest in Europe