Written in French. The forest has inhabited our imagination since time immemorial. Among men and women, artists have had a singular look at trees and forests, sensing their importance and being among the first to defend them, like Théodore Rousseau who, in 1861, obtained the protection of part of the Fontainebleau forest. In almost all early traditions, there is a cosmic tree, an intermediary between the underworld, the earth and the sky. A tree of life, and later sacred woods, protected sanctuaries and a kind of 'world centre'. Today, the primordial tree and the sacred wood are back in
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