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Philippe de Commines (c. 1447–1511)
Comines, Philippe de (ko-mēn’). A noted French chronicler; born at Comines, about 1447; died at the château of Argenton, Oct. 17, 1511. He was the trusted counselor of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, of his son and successor Charles the Bold, of Louis XI., King of France, and of his successor, Charles VIII. His ‘Memoirs’ supply the most trustworthy material we have for the history of his age, and the fullest. The first six books of the ‘Memoirs’ were written between 1488 and 1494, and the last two between 1497 and 1501; they were first printed in 1524–25. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).