Bastide Definition

noun

Mansion in Provence.

One well-known bastide in Provence is the Bastide Neuve, located in the village of La Treille near Marseille, which was a summer house for the family of French writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
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New town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Bastides began to appear in numbers under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1229), which permitted Raymond VII of Toulouse to build new towns in his shattered domains, though not to fortify them.
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Origin of Bastide

  • From French bastide

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Bastide Sentence Examples

  • They were built on a rectangular plan, with a large central square and straight thoroughfares running at right angles or parallel to one another, this uniformity of construction being well exemplified in the existing bastide of Monpazier (Dordogne) founded by the English in 1284.

  • The name Castelsarrasin appears in the 13th century, when the village of Villelongue was replaced by the present bastide.

  • The La Bastide Saint Dominique Grenache Secrets de Pignan is an especially unique version because it is made only from Grenache with no other varietals blended in.

  • However, the Bonnet family's La Bastide Saint Dominique uses 100 percent Grenache in its 2003 Secrets de Pignan.

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