Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . , as early as 1126, f and borefor arms: Dazur au chev. dor, ace. de trois roses du meme:au chef darg., charge de trois merlette du champe. :{: In France the family has borne an honorable partin war and peace, and has given to the world the notedpolitical thinker and philosophical reasoner, Jean Bodin,a native of Angers, born 31 May, 1530, died of the plague at Laon in 1596,the father of political science, if Machiavelli be excepted, and the author of Livres de la Republique, Paris, 1576. Sir William Hamilton [
Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . , as early as 1126, f and borefor arms: Dazur au chev. dor, ace. de trois roses du meme:au chef darg., charge de trois merlette du champe. :{: In France the family has borne an honorable partin war and peace, and has given to the world the notedpolitical thinker and philosophical reasoner, Jean Bodin,a native of Angers, born 31 May, 1530, died of the plague at Laon in 1596,the father of political science, if Machiavelli be excepted, and the author of Livres de la Republique, Paris, 1576. Sir William Hamilton [i 729-1803]said of him that, from the time of Aristotle until Montesquieu the six books ofBodins form the ablest and most remarkable treatise extant on the philosophyof government and legislation. Gaspard de Bodin, of the branch Bodin de Boisrenarce, progenitor ofthe Bodins de Galumbert, was captain of the grenadiers of Guyenne andChevalier de St. Louis, and left the service in 1767 with the rank of brevet-major. This line bore the arms of le Boudin, with the addition of lions as. * Registers du Pais Bas et LAbbaye de SAutbert, Cambray. t Hist, de Cambray, i. 174. t Reitstap Armorial General, Tome i. 153 THE BODINE FAMILY A \ supporters. Of this family was Jean Francis Bodin, the historian, born atAngers, 26 September, 1776, died in 1829, author of Recherches historiquessur Saumur et le haut Anjou, pubHshed in 1821 and 1822; and Rechercheshistoriques sur Angers et le bas Anjou. His son, Felix Bodin, born atSaumur, in December, 1795, died at Paris, 7 May, 1837, was likewise theauthor of several important historical works. Dr. Pierre Joseph FrancoisBodin, the famous deputy for the Department Loire, who voted for thedeportation of Louis XVL, was also of this branch. 1. JEAN BODINES of the Cambray family, is said to have removedto MediSj in the province of Saintonge, France, where his son Jean was bornin 1645. He was doubtless a Huguenot, and left the country of his nativityto find
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