François-Hilaire Gilbert and the Treatise on Artificial Grasslands
par Dominique Poulain, Maître de Conférences d’Agronomie et Histoire de l’Agriculture. Laboratoire de Science du Végétal, Agrocampus Rennes, Adel. Dominique.Poulain@agrocampus-rennes.fr
Presentation and analysis of the Treatise on Artificial Grasslands by François-Hilaire Gilbert. Historical and agricultural background of its publication, with a description of places and the rural landscape of the ‘Généralité de Paris’. Definitions of meadows, and especially of artificial grasslands at the end of the old régime in France: Which fodder is grown? Which surface area is required? Which growing methods are recommended? The findings of Gilbert.