Basses-Alpes
Britishnoun
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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
Born in 1895, at Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Basses-Alpes, forty-eight primary assemblies: two vote on the decrees.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
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
BARCELONNETTE, a town in the department of Basses-Alpes, in the S.E. of France.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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