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Charles Bastide
b. 1875
A French scholar of English literature and political thought, he wrote about John Locke and the long, complicated ties between France and England. His work opens a window onto seventeenth-century ideas, diplomacy, and culture.
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The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century
by Charles Bastide
About the author
Active in the early 1900s, Charles Bastide was a French man of letters and teacher whose work centered on English history, literature, and political ideas. Library and authority records identify him as a French professor of letters, and his surviving books show a strong interest in the exchange of ideas between France and England.
His best-known works include John Locke: ses théories politiques et leur influence en Angleterre (1906) and The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century (1914). In them, he explored subjects such as political liberty, religion and the state, tolerance, and the cultural links between the two countries.
Some records list his birth year as 1875, while others point to 1873, so the exact date is not completely consistent in the sources available here. What is clear is that his writing reflects a careful, scholarly interest in how literature, politics, and national history shape one another.