1549 HISTORY of FRANCE by Philippe de Commynes antique reign of King Louis XI

COMMYNES, Philippe de


Cronique & histoire faicte & composée par feu messire Philippe de Commines chevalier, seigneur d'Argenton, contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz

Paris: Estienne Groulleau (col. Guillaume Thibout); 1549

(Chronicle and history made and composed by the late Sir Philippe de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton, containing the events that occurred during the reign of King Louis XI and Charles VIII, his son.)


 [8], 248 leaves

Occasional faded dampstains

Very small gallery of wormholes on a few leaves

 18th-century full mottled calf binding, spine with gilt compartments

-Ref. Bibl. Belg. C 168-

Size 4 1/4 by 6  3/4"

Text in French
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Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 –  1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.
He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).
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.
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