Basses-Alpes

/ bɑsalp /

noun

1. the former name for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Example Sentences

Seine 20,803 Basses-Alpes 42 Nord 850 Hautes-Alpes 49 Rh�ne 778 Loz�re 64 5 Inspectors are placed at the head of the synodal circumscriptions; their functions are to consecrate candidates for the ministry, install the pastors, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

It passes through the departments of Hautes-Alpes, of Basses-Alpes, and between those of Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rh�ne.

From Project Gutenberg

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

DR�ME, a department in the south-east of France, formed of parts of Dauphin� and Provence, and bounded W. by the Rhone, which separates it from Ard�che, N. and N.E. by Is�re, E. by Hautes-Alpes, S.E. by Basses-Alpes, and S. by Vaucluse; area 2533 sq. m.; pop.

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