La Bastide-Puylaurent
La Bastide-Puylaurent | |
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The war memorial outside the Les Pins Hotel, in La Bastide-Puylaurent | |
Location of La Bastide-Puylaurent | |
| Coordinates: 44°35′36″N 3°54′22″E / 44.5933°N 3.9061°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Lozère |
| Arrondissement | Mende |
| Canton | Saint-Étienne-du-Valdonnez |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Michel Teissier |
Area 1 | 24.19 km2 (9.34 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | 178 |
| • Density | 7.4/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 48021 /48250 |
| Elevation | 751–1,328 m (2,464–4,357 ft) (avg. 1,024 m or 3,360 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
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La Bastide-Puylaurent (French pronunciation: [la bastid pɥiloʁɑ̃]; Occitan: Puèglaurenç) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.
The Trappist monastery Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows), visited by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878 and described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, is about one and a half miles east of the village, in the Ardèche department. The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path approximately following Stevenson's journey, runs through the village.