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
Life of Philip de Commines with a reply to the accusations of Jacobus Meyerus.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
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
How long this great tower of Commines took, I can only conjecture.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
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)
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