Basses-Pyrénées

/ bɑspirene /

plural noun

1. the former name for Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Example Sentences

That of the Basses-Pyrénées on the 8th August acquitted Duportal and the four or five persons accused of the movement of Toulouse.

From Project Gutenberg

La Soule was formerly a province feudatory to Navarre, and now embraces, within the French department of the Basses-Pyrénées, the cantons of Mauléon and Tardets, as well as some parishes of the canton of St. Palais, in the arrondissement of Mauléon.

From Project Gutenberg

From the Basses-Pyrenees to the Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three more they did not see, including the notorious camp for German Jews at Gurs, in the Basses-Pyrenees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Biarritz, which is in the department of the Basses-Pyrénées, yet a long way from the mountain range, was unknown to fame until Eugénie, empress of the French, built a grand villa here, and made it her summer resort; being, however, over five hundred miles from the French capital, it never became very popular with the Parisians.

From Project Gutenberg