Now, too, the 'Bastides' and 'Villes Neuves' of southern France and towns like Aigues-Mortes (1240) were built on similar plans.[122] [122] For the Bastides and Villes Neuves see Dr.A.E.

Brinckmann, _Deutsche Bauzeitung_, Jan.-Feb., 1910, and, for an example, fig.
35.

Many of them may be earlier than 1200 (A.Giry, _Bibl.

de l'Ecole des Chartes_, xlii.

451), but those with more or less chess-board plans seem later.
[Illustration: FIG.35.PLAN OF A BASTIDE TOWN, SAUVETERRE-DE-GUYENNE NEAR BORDEAUX (A.D.