- Similarly, near Toulouse,[55] where the
magnificent forest of Larramet is devastated in open day and by an
armed force, where the wanton destruction by the populace leaves
nothing of the underwood and shrubbery but "a few scattered trees
and the remains of trunks cut at different heights," the
municipalities of Toulouse and of Tournefeuille refuse all aid. And
worse still, in other provinces, as for instance in Alsace, "whole
municipalities, with their mayors at the head, cut down woods which
are confided to them, and carry them off."[56] If some tribunal is
disposed to enforce the law, it is to no purpose; it takes the risk,
either of not being allowed to give judgment, or of being
constrained to reverse its decision. At Paris the judgment prepared
against the incendiaries of the tax-offices could not be given. At
Montargis, the sentence pronounced against the marauders who had
stolen cartloads of wood in the national forests had to be revised,
and by the judges themselves.
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