Commines
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noun
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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
Commines, meanwhile, was sent on a further errand to Venice, where he vainly endeavoured to negotiate a treaty, but found the Signoria determined to maintain the cause of Ferrante of Naples.
From Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright
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
Hastings accepted the French pension, being double the amount of the Burgundian, but on this occasion, according to Commines, would give no written acknowledgment.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Before he went away, the king appointed one to go with him to Bordeaux, and Commines had also some talk with him, by his majesty's express command.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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