The French chronicler Philippe de Comines (ca. 1445-1511) wrote an extensive memoir of the reigns of Louis XI and Charles VIII.Born in the château of Renescure in Flanders before 1447, probably ...
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Celebrated as the first modern French historian, Philippe de Commynes not only recorded the political events surrounding the French court at the close of the fifteenth century; he also played an activ...
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Philippe de Comines
Phillippe de Commynes