Bastile vs Bastide - What's the difference?
bastile | bastide |
mansion in Provence
new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
As nouns the difference between bastile and bastide
is that bastile is while bastide is mansion in provence.bastide
English
(wikipedia bastide)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.