Commines
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Philippe de Commines is actually Andre Bercoff, 37, a former cultural editor of the newsmagazine L'Express.
From Time Magazine Archive
"In Italy," as Commines wrote, "they make little difference between legitimate and illegitimate children."
From Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright
Philippe de Commines, ambassador of Lewis the Eleventh in Rome, said that without the Orsini and the Colonna, the States of the Church would be the happiest country in the world.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
De Commines joined the Duke of Orleans in a conspiracy against the government of the Regent, which was discovered.
From In Château Land by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth
We are now arrived at the closing reflections of Commines upon the course which events had taken in France at this memorable crisis.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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