Basses-Alpes
Britishnoun
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Born in 1895, at Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lives in a remote mountain village of the Basses-Alpes, writes unusual novels about hamhanded, muscularly poetic peasants against bright-colored, heroic landscapes.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Les Mées in the Basses-Alpes is a very similar cave, with two beams across fastened at the ends into the rock, which is a conglomerate, at the height of 350 feet, and quite inaccessible.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
He said, "En be! moussu, ses sage?" as in lower Languedoc; "Onte anaras passa?" as in the Basses-Alpes; "Puerte un bouen moutu embe un bouen fromage grase," as in upper Dauphine.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Basses-Alpes, forty-eight primary assemblies: two vote on the decrees.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
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