She told me that there could not be a worthier, honester, better man, than bastide. |
The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, followed by the Carolingian French but the later French term was basti or bastide. |
A single house outside the walls of a town was also called a bastide. |
The bastide, or castle town, although not large, is still significant to political and administrative life. |
Each gate of the new wall was defended by a kind of fortress called a bastide or Bastille. |
Cordes-sur-Ciel, the first bastide, sits on the top of a mountain and is, thus, aptly named. |