[1] In October 1944 he joined the 2nd Armored Division led by General Leclerc and participated in the last phase of the WWII Western Front operations.
[2] Bastide also wrote for the theatre (Siegfried 78) and for television (most notably Le Troisième concerto which won the Grand Prix de la Télévision in 1963 and L'Éducation sentimentale, a mini-series adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education).
[1] He is perhaps best known to the wider French public as one of the original co-hosts (with Michel Polac) of the popular radio talk-show Le Masque et la Plume.
[2] The show which features debates about cinema, literature and theatre debuted in 1955 and is still running today on France Inter.
[1] He also co-authored the 1978 "Bastide report" which led four years later to the creation of the Haute Autorité de la communication audiovisuelle.