Special envoy to Rouans
When winter comes and the trees appear bare and fragile in the French countryside, the chainsaw concert begins.
It disturbs the surrounding calm.
In some cases, it is a simple pruning.
In others, it is more a matter of real destruction carried out by man, where trees that are sometimes hundred years old, planted on embankments for ecological reasons but also cadastral, in order to delimit the farms, disappear forever from the landscape.
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The quarrel of the hedges is still very lively in the fields
In Rouans, in Loire-Atlantique, a rural town of nearly 3,800 hectares of which more than 2,000 are operated by about twenty farms, the fields are still surrounded by hedges and trees creating a very special atmosphere, which can be found in the film
Le Grand Chemin
with Richard Bohringer and Anemone shot on location in 1987. But this bucolic atmosphere could soon only belong to the past.
In fact, from next January, excavators, graders and chainsaws will
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