The Sapeurs-Forestiers (Forest Sappers) were an army corps in existence between 1927 and 1945. They replaced the forest hunters whose corps was abolished in 1924.
Between the two world wars, the military command, anxious to
ensure the army's great wood needs in the field, organized forest sapper units
during peacetime, supervised only by reserve personnel.
The béret plays a role even in the ‘song of the foresters’:
I know under my French sky,
Tanned guys with pensive foreheads,
In green jackets
In blue hunter's pants.
The beret tilted over the ear,
And on the lips a song,
They leave when the dawn turns red,
Up there colors the horizon.
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