Julia Bastin (June 16, 1888 – October 26, 1968) was a Belgian academic, educator and novelist.
[2] Bastin spent World War I in England and studied languages at Bedford College, particularly French literature from the Middle Ages.
From 1920 to 1931, she lived in Paris, attending the École pratique des hautes études and the Sorbonne where she studied Old French and Old Occitan.
In 1932, she translated Johan Huizinga's Herfsttijd der Middeleeuwen into French as Le déclin du Moyen Âge.
[1] In 1929 and 1930, Bastin published the two volumes of Recueil général des Isopets, a collection of fables from the Middle Ages.