La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation

The Pays de Caux (Normandy) offers a landscape of cultivated plateaux dotted with thickets. Ancient farmhouses are often surrounded and protected by trees, these are the famous clos-masures. Their agricultural function is disappearing, but the rows of beech trees are still very much present in the l...

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Main Author: Pauline Frileux
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Language:fra
Published: Agrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP Lille 2017-07-01
Series:Projets de Paysage
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/5746
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description The Pays de Caux (Normandy) offers a landscape of cultivated plateaux dotted with thickets. Ancient farmhouses are often surrounded and protected by trees, these are the famous clos-masures. Their agricultural function is disappearing, but the rows of beech trees are still very much present in the landscape. After a period during which most of the trees were felled (from 1950 to 1970) followed a period of replanting of “windbreaks” with the support of the public authorities and in defence of the landscape. This article analyses the values attributed today to these curtains of trees in agronomic, landscaping and environmental terms. The study was conducted within the framework of a project for the listing of the clos-masures as part of the UNESCO world heritage. The findings come from an ethnographic survey conducted in the area of Yvetot. The tree has lost its agricultural function of protecting cattle and producing wood ; it is now through the landscape and the environment that it has meaning for the farmers. This notion of common interest is a key element in the agricultural and urban revival of the clos-masures of the Pays de Caux region.
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spelling doaj-art-dcb39e02e9cc431f89e545cc5b446a4f2025-02-05T16:20:36ZfraAgrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP LilleProjets de Paysage1969-61242017-07-011610.4000/paysage.5746La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisationPauline FrileuxThe Pays de Caux (Normandy) offers a landscape of cultivated plateaux dotted with thickets. Ancient farmhouses are often surrounded and protected by trees, these are the famous clos-masures. Their agricultural function is disappearing, but the rows of beech trees are still very much present in the landscape. After a period during which most of the trees were felled (from 1950 to 1970) followed a period of replanting of “windbreaks” with the support of the public authorities and in defence of the landscape. This article analyses the values attributed today to these curtains of trees in agronomic, landscaping and environmental terms. The study was conducted within the framework of a project for the listing of the clos-masures as part of the UNESCO world heritage. The findings come from an ethnographic survey conducted in the area of Yvetot. The tree has lost its agricultural function of protecting cattle and producing wood ; it is now through the landscape and the environment that it has meaning for the farmers. This notion of common interest is a key element in the agricultural and urban revival of the clos-masures of the Pays de Caux region.https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/5746clos-masurebeech treewindbreakrelationship to naturePays de Caux
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La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
Projets de Paysage
clos-masure
beech tree
windbreak
relationship to nature
Pays de Caux
title La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
title_full La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
title_fullStr La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
title_full_unstemmed La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
title_short La hêtraie du clos-masure, entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
title_sort la hetraie du clos masure entre modernisations agricoles et urbanisation
topic clos-masure
beech tree
windbreak
relationship to nature
Pays de Caux
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