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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. |
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