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.
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The Duke of Alen�on, Charles de Melun and Philippe de Commines were also imprisoned in this fortress.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.
The first part was written between 1489 and 1491, while Commines was at the ch�teau of Dreux, the second from 1495 to 1498.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
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
One of them then told Commines that, if they had seen many such men of the duke of Burgundy's before, perhaps the peace had not been concluded so soon.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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