In the past, the monks of the Abbey of Boscodon in the Hautes-Alpes department lived from the exploitation of the forest and the estate, then from sheep farming on the Provençal draye linking Queyras to the Crau plain. At the end of the 18th century, following the Revolution, the cloister and the officers' wing of the abbey were destroyed to prevent any return of the monks. The site was sold as national property and transformed into land rent, marking the beginning of a period of peasant occupation of two centuries during which Boscodon became a hamlet. Its abbey church was then used as a shed to store wood. The Boscodon forest then became a state property with the nationalization of 914 acres (370 ha) of church forest.