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Renaud Carrier, « Des préfets en avance sur leur temps ? Protection des forêts, aménagement rural et urbain en Aveyron au début du XIXe siècle », Annales du Midi (documents), ID : 10.3406/anami.1995.2458
Prefects Ahead of Their Time ? Forest Protection and Rural and Urban Planning in Aveyron at the Beginning of the 19th Century. At the beginning of the 19th Century, rural and urban space preoccupied the first prefects of Aveyron. While continuing in the footsteps of some Old Regime intendants and their policies, the measures taken in view of protecting forests, harnessing rivers, beautifying and cleaning up cities and villages carried in them the social dimensions of the Revolution. By their actions, they contributed to the birth of a right to air and water and the recognition of a right to the forest.