Education
He was educated at Mill Hill School and studied at Balliol College, Oxford from 1873 to 1876.
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- France (1898, two volumes)L'Anglomanie et les Traditions Françaises (1899)The Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History (1903)The Church In France (1906)Cardinal Manning. The decay of idealism in France. The Institute of France (1912)L'Age Mécanique et le Déclin de l'idéalisme en France (1913)The Romance of the Battle-Line in France (1920).
John Bodley
John Edward Courtenay Bodley was an English civil servant, known for his writings on France.
Career
An active Freemason, he approached Oscar Wilde, then also an undergraduate, and introduced him to a Masonic Lodge in Oxford. Richard Ellmann attributes to Bodley a long, spiteful New York Times article that appeared on Wilde, on 21 January 1882. He was secretary to Charles Dilke, from 1880.
Initially Dilke thought him frivolous, but he came to play a major part in Dilke"s official work and private life.
He was a witness in the divorce case that broke Dilke"s career. He subsequently believed that Dilke"s downfall was caused by Joseph Chamberlain.
Bodley"s political writings are in the general tradition of Hippolyte Taine, whom Bodley knew. A 1928 work by Charles Maurras about him was entitled L"anglais qui a connu la France.
Maurras had already studied Bodley in 1902, in Deux témoins de la France.
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He was a descendent of Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library.
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France (1898, two volumes)L'Anglomanie et les Traditions Françaises (1899)The Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History (1903)The Church In France (1906)Cardinal Manning. The decay of idealism in France. The Institute of France (1912)L'Age Mécanique et le Déclin de l'idéalisme en France (1913)The Romance of the Battle-Line in France (1920).
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