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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOCAGE (from O. Fr. boscage,
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Late
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Lat. boscum, a wood)
  , a French topographical
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term applied to several regions of France, the commonest characteristics of which are a granite formation and an undulating or hilly
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surface, consisting largely of heath or reclaimed
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land, and dotted with clumps of trees . The most important districts designated by the word are (I) the Bocage of
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Normandy, which comprises portions of the departments of
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Calvados,
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Manche and
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Orne; (2) the Bocage of Vendee, situated in the departments of Vendee, Deux-Sevres, Maine-et-
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Loire, and Loire-Inferieure .

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