Commines
Americannoun
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
For this edition the author used a manuscript hitherto unknown and more complete than the others, and in his introduction he gives an account of the life of Commines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
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
According to Philip de Commines: "He tried so many things that he could not live long enough to carry them through, and they were indeed almost impossible enterprises."
From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Cammaerts, Emile
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
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