Ardennes

Forest of, an extensive forest of Gaul. In Caesar's time it occupied the lower plains of the Rhine. Some writers say that it extended to the North Sea. The name is still retained by the French department of Ardennes. Portions of the forest still remain in Ardennes, Luxemburg, and Belgium. In Quentin Durward Walter Scott, it may be remembered, calls William de la Marck "the Wild Boar of Ardennes." The name, in a somewhat shortened form, recurred in England in the Arden Forest of Warwickshire.