La Bastide Saint-Louis
Thirteenth-century planned grid town of straight streets, walled blocks and a lively central square.
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This guide to La Bastide Saint-Louis in Carcassonne follows Philippe Fabre, a cloth merchant's son born in the planned lower town in the summer of seventeen fifty. It touches the medieval grid he grew up in, the grander surname he gave himself as a young poet, and the Revolution that handed him an unusual commission. Best heard on the rue de Verdun, a few steps from the house where he was born.
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