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  A Concise Description of Flanders: Mystics, Writers and Philosophers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1472 he left the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to enter that of Louis XI of France, who rewarded him richly with a pension and estates, to which marriage added the Lordship of Argenton; hence he was also known as Philippe d'Argenton.
His Mémoires de Messire Philippe de Commines sur les règnes de Louis XI et de Charles VIII (published at Leiden, Netherlands, available in many editions and translations) is a historical and literary work of the highest rank.
Was one of the 20 founders of the Académie royale de Langue et de Littérature françaises.
www.noosphere.cc /flandersMystics.html   (5760 words)

  
 AndrĂ© Bialek - The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives
He was born in Brussels in 1948, and discovered the joys of music at a relatively young age, so grew up with the likes of Brel, Ferré, Ray Charles and the Onyx Club.
In this period he started writing his own songs (the oldest are "Ma façon de vivre" and "L'alcool" (my way of living and alcohol).
In 2000, his "Belle Gigue" was at the foundations of an interesting new folkband, because when Yves Barbieux of Coïncidence got the order to make a contemporary version of this song, he came up with his Urban Trad.
houbi.com /belpop/groups/bialek.htm   (862 words)

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