Noun
A 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.
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.
In 2014, The Ruby Throne, the first volume of a new four-volume adaptation of Elric of Melniboné written by Julien Blondel and illustrated by Didier Poli, Jean Bastide, and Robin Recht, was published by Titan Comics. Source: Internet
Lefebvre rose to fame in L.A. as the chef at L'Orangerie and then at Bastide, but he is thought to have really come into his own with his cult-status pop-up dinner series, LudoBites. Source: Internet
Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, says he has held talks with the President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Michael de la Bastide, amidst mounting concerns over threats to the court’s existence. Source: Internet
Fares start at £49 one-way for services to Avignon TGV (a 50min drive from La Bastide de Gordes) from London St Pancras International, with up to four services a week, depending on the time of year. Source: Internet
President of the Court, on which sits two Guyanese judges including the country’s first female Chancellor Desiree Bernard, Michael de la Bastide said the CCJ would not be subjected to political interference from any CARICOM member country. Source: Internet