Mémoires

Memoirs

Author

Philippe de Commines

Language

Middle French

Year

1524

Country

France

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

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Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times". Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.