Fremeaux and Jordan, 31: "Like most of Europe following the Ice Age, [bocages were] once deep forest that [their] inhabitants slashed and burned, a practice that left low-fertility moorland in its wake. For thousands of years these moorlands were managed as what we would today call a 'commons': the land and its uses were cared for collectively through a culture of mutual aid and users' assemblies in order to ensure the long-term flourishing of both land and community. The land provided enough food and subsistence for the communities that lived here until the rise of capitalism and the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"
residents "resisted enclosure for over 200 years"
see "Usage of the Commons at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Yesterday and Today," by Francois de Beaulieu (former Situationist)
http://notbored.org/Beaulieu.pdf