As we drove through some of Le Perche's dozen villages (and many more tiny communes), here and there were ocher stone houses with red-tiled roofs and herds of white cows on dazzling green pastures.
Mr Hilton's dreams were partly inspired by France, where even the tiniest commune has an elected leader in a tricouleur sash, well-known to local electors—"Bonsoir, Monsieur le Maire"—and thus accountable to them, and representing authority devolved to the lowest possible level.
Unga met BFC co-founder Tant when they lived as children in a tiny, 40-person commune in the foothills of Mount Carmel, northern Israel.
BERLIN — Sometimes on a whim I stop into the Bode Museum here to commune with a tiny clay sculpture of John the Baptist.
They are from famous, often tiny vineyards within storied Burgundy communes, as their majestic but often cumbersome pedigrees imply.
Pick up supplies for self-catering at the tiny fishing-village-turned-artist-commune of Trentemoult, which has an organic market on Saturday mornings and is a ferry ride from the Gare Maritime (bit.ly/Trentemoult; tickets €2/£1.50; departures 11am-7.40pm).
For 20 years, Ms. Monson, who is 40, performed her work in tiny Manhattan lofts, where the audience communed with the dancers' sweat.
One night entering the Astor Place subway station I mentioned to him how funny it is that our shared childhood on a zebra and antelope farm, going to tiny schools best summarized as "hippie communes" by the east coast friends who ask about them, is not apparent to anyone else.
Begun more than 20 years ago in total secrecy, it is the spiritual core of Damanhur, a 23-year-old New Age commune nestled, somewhat improbably, amid tiny rural villages in the Piedmont valley of Valchiusella, in the foothills of the Alps.
