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
The French ambassador, Philippe de Commines, called her "the most triumphant city I have ever seen."
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
In an interview with the French emissary, Pierre Cleret, of which Commines in his Book VI. chapter ii. gives the particulars at some length, he said the money might be put in his sleeve.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
After these particulars, Commines repeats his censures of the duke of Burgundy's infatuated conduct, in throwing away that advantage of English aid, which he had been labouring all his life to procure.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Not a prince in the world, said Philip de Commines, can levy a penny without the consent of the people.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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