-Change was slower to arrive to than continental countryside than it was to England
-Areas densely populated with high food prices encouraged landlords with large farms to invest in agricultural improvements and adopt innovative farming methods.
-The governing institutions of many provinces banned obligatory vacant pasture and allowed individual owners to enclose their land; many even allowed for the division of communal lands.
-The French monarchy, however, did not adopt this as national policy, and after the 1760s provincial authorities were unwilling to enforce these enclosure ordinances against the opposition of peasants.
-This made traces of the medieval village last longer in France and Western Europe

Limits of agrarian changes